Small businesses oppose increasing the state’s gasoline tax. Dawn Starns, State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business, says they surveyed their members and 73-percent oppose a gas tax hike. Starns says everyone wants to see better roads but….
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Lawmakers are expected to take up bills that would increase the gasoline tax by at least seven-cents a gallon.

A survey of Louisiana residents finds about half of the state’s adult population have an unfavorable opinion of the federal health care law, the Affordable Care Act. Doctor Michael Henderson, with the LSU Public Policy Research Lab, suspects the 51-percent disapproval rating has more to do with politics…
cut 14 (11) “…the A-C-A”

The House Ways and Means Committe began disussing tax bills that have been filed for this session. St. Francisville Representative Kenny Havard has a measure that would lower personal income taxes and make up that revenue by raising taxes on businesses…
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Changing Louisiana’s tax laws are a major debate, because one-point-three billion dollars in temporary taxes expire next year.

A Thibodaux man is in hot water with his wife and the law. Thibodaux Police Corporal David Melancon says 33-year-old Junius Boyd hit his girlfriend with a shovel handle at an Easter Egg hunt, after she first attacked him with that weapon…
cut 7 (12) “…defending yourself”
Boyd and the women were arrested. Melancon says the altercation took place in front of Boyd’s wife and child.