Today, Governor John Bel Edwards is expected to issue the call for a rebalancing the budget special session that would begin February 13th. Jeremy Alford of LaPolitics.com says the governor will push the use of 119 million dollars from the Rainy Day Fund to address the $304 million dollar budget gap…:
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He says other items in the call will allow legislators to make cuts throughout the budget.

Governor Edwards has announced changes within his administration. Longtime legislator and current chief of staff Ben Nevers will retire at the end of the month and Mark Cooper will take his place. Cooper was former Governor Bobby Jindal’s homeland security secretary.

And former U.S. Senator David Vitter has a new job. He’s been hired by Washington D-C lobbying firm Mercury Public affairs.

When watching football on Sunday look for the Louisiana Clydesdales that will be shown for about a second in a Budweiser Super Bowl Commerical. Clay Harper of Pearl River owns those horses and they shot the commercial over a several day period in New Orleans last month…
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Harper says the clydesdales are shown just before the 40-second mark of the 60-second ad.

According to Value Penguin, the St. Mary Parish town of Patterson is the the safest place to live and work in Louisiana. Associate Editor Andrew Pentis says it’s the second year in a row Patterson has received their top ranking…
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St. Gabriel and Minden are also ranked in the top five and Pentis says they use FBI crime statistics to come up with their rankings.