The governor’s spending plan for the next fiscal year has been presented to lawmakers, as they’re gearing up for the regular session in April.
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Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz is seeking more information from FEMA about an 84-year-old Baton Rouge man who died in an overheated mobile home issued by the federal government. Chaffetz says when authorities investigated the the M-H-U the temperature inside reached 138-degree even though the air conditioning control unit read 50-degrees.

US Senator Bill Cassidy held another town hall meeting this morning in Thibodaux and the crowd was not as raucous as what the senior senator faced yesterday in Metairie. Cassidy is one of several Republican Congressional members who has faced furious constituents upset over health care and public education. UL Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says you can expect to keep seeing this type of activism….
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LSU Health Shreveport will soon begin to help children who have chronic respiratory diseases as they are opening a new pediatric chronic ventilator clinic….
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That’s Doctor Keith Scott who says there’s no other facility like this in north Louisiana.