08:30 LRN Newscast May 30th

As families celebrate Memorial Day with cookouts and crawfish boils, Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Joey Strickland encourages people to remember why they have the day off. Don Molino has moreā€¦
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You can help choose the official beer of LSU. Co-founder of Tin Roof Brewery in Baton Rouge, William McGehee, says people age 21 and over can go to TinRoofBeer.com to register to be part of a tasting panel…
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The official LSU beer should be available for the start of the 2016 football season.

Louisiana lawmakers will revisit revenue raising measures when a second special session for 2016 begins next Monday. Despite raising taxes in the first special session, the state is still dealing with a 600-million dollar revenue shortfall and the governor’s director of communications, Richard Carbo, says they would like to fully fund TOPS, health care, K-12 educatio and higher ed…
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The Republican Party of Louisiana has released a statement that says they oppose any increase in taxes.

Festival Productions Incorporated says the attendance for this year’s Bayou Country Superfest was 100,000, the lowest it’s been since 2014, which was the first year the musical festival inside Tiger Stadium was expanded to a three-day event.