Congressman Clay Higgins has sent a letter to Governor John Bel Edwards urging him to take action to keep Louisiana’s confederate monuments in place. The Liberty Place monument in New Orleans was already removed. Higgins says this is something that has to be done at the state level…:
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu maintains the city has a right to control its own property.

A study by the LSU Public Policy Research Lab and the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children finds a lack of quality childcare costs employers and employees over a billion dollars a year. LPIC Executive Director Melanie Bronfin says Louisiana has cut funding to early child care programs 70-percent since 2008….:
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Bronfin says a way to solve these problems is to stop cutting money to pay for the Louisiana School Readiness Tax Credits.

LSU and a news organization have created a website which would let the public give an opinion on how Louisiana’s budget woes could be repaired. Jeff Palermo reports…:
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Today Governor John Bel Edwards is slated to testify before a Senate Judiciary committee in support of his legislative agenda on criminal justice reform.