Amazon’s new policy of collecting sales tax in Louisiana has upset a lot of Louisiana residents, including Senator-elect John Kennedy. He says many state lawmakers are dancing at the Capitol because they’ll have more money to spend, at the expense of Louisiana taxpayers.
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It’s estimated once the policy goes into effect on January 1, it will bring in an additional $30 million a year for Louisiana.

A major story in 2016 was the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man, who was killed after a confrontation with two white police officers. Governor John Bel Edwards says since then police departments have been asked to re-evaluate how they train officers…
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2016 was another hectic year for Louisiana politics. Lapolitics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says the first interesting twist was when Republican Taylor Barras was elected as speaker of the House rather than Governor Edwards’ pick of Democrat Representative Walt Leger. Alford it’s the first time in modern history the governor did not hand select the speaker…

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Alford says Edwards and House Republican leaders will likely continue to butt heads in 2017.