Early voting for the November 18 election is open starting today. There is a state treasurer race, New Orleans mayoral contest and local propositions in 32 parishes to be decided. Secretary of State Tom Schedler predicts a very low turnout for this election. Only 13 percent turned out for the October 18 election and he’s predicting around 10 or 11 percent this time around.
As we’re turning our clocks back an hour on Sunday for Daylight Saving Time, State Fire Marshal Butch Browning reminds residents now is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke alarm. He says first generation fire alarms need to have the batteries replaced every 12 months, and it also might be time for an upgrade…:
DST ends at 2am Sunday
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The House GOP tax reform plan announced Thursday would consolidate the current seven tax brackets into four and would double the standard deduction, giving an average family of four nearly 12-hundred-dollars more income per year. But Jan Moller with the Louisiana Budget Project says the one-and-a-half-trillion-dollar cuts in the package over ten years will affect services many rely on…
Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves says when tax cuts were approved in the past, it caused more money to be circulated in the economy, which helped to raise incomes and protect federal programs already in place…