Lawmakers are entering another special session because the legislature failed to pass a spending plan for next fiscal year during the regular session. Publisher of La-politics-dot-com, Jeremy Alford says House Republican leaders do not want to spend all of the dollars that are available.

Cut 12 (09) “do not”

Governor John Bel Edwards says it was a failure of leadership in the House that led to this unnecessary special session because lawmakers put partisan politics ahead of the people’s business. The governor says he will keep the legislature in Baton Rouge as long as it takes to pass a budget that fully funds state services. This is the fourth special session of Edwards term, and it must end by June 19.

The US Inspector General reviewed 225 cases of suspected Medicaid fraud in Louisiana, and the state had a 100% compliance rate. That’s according to Chief of Staff with the Louisiana Department of Health, Andrew Tuozzolo. He credits the use of state-of-the-art software to look for potentially fraudulent billing practices.

Cut 10 (10) “for that service”

Louisiana is one of only four states to pass this audit since 2014.

We can expect to see more mosquitos out and about after more than a week of continued rain. LSU AgCenter entomologist Kristen Healy says a lot of rainfall can lead to hatching of so-called flood water mosquitos.

Cut 6 (09) “for example”