Tomorrow, Governor Edwards will meet with US Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to discuss Medicaid expansion. The governor’s director of communications Richard Carbo says Edwards wants to ensure that people who finally have health coverage can keep it, as there’s talk of repealing the Affordable Care Act…:
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He says the state’s uninsured rate is much lower because of the Medicaid expansion.

U-S Senator John Kennedy has told Fox 8 in New Orleans the superintendent of state police, Colonel Mike Edmonson, needs to resign. Governor John Bel Edwards has called an investigation looking into a taxpayer funded trip by four state troopers that included hotel stays at the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. Kennedy told investigative reporter Lee Zurik that he’s offended as a taxpayer that something like this would happen when the state is running a deficit.

A Gallup poll finds Louisiana has some of the most enthusiastic employees in the country. According to the survey, 36-percent of Bayou State workers are engaged. It also found people are more engaged when they are self employed. LSU Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Management Jeremy Beus (bus) says this makes sense for Louisiana where there are many small businesses.
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Alabama leads in engagement at 37-percent.

There’s an effort in Shreveport today to set the Guinness World Record for the longest wave line. They need at least 85-hundred people to participate and organizer Jake Wood says it will take plenty of volunteers to get everyone in place….
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They’ll attempt to set this world record prior to the start of the Krewe of Gemini Parade on Clyde Fant Parkway.