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Tangipahoa Parish School Board member Mike Whitlow is facing heavy backlash for posting a picture of a noose on his public Facebook page. The picture had the caption: “If we want to make America great again, we will have to make evil people fear punishment again.” Tangipahoa Parish council member Louis Joseph says it was a bad idea.
Whitlow says the post was not racially motivated, he says it was about criminal justice.
Attorney General Jeff Landry and Governor John Bel Edwards have agreed to coordinate efforts to bring litigation against opioid manufacturers, who they feel are responsible for the epidemic that’s claiming hundreds lives every year. The A-G’s Chief Deputy Bill Stiles says the state seeks damages for costs incurred within the Medicaid program.
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After hitting the Southern regional average for teacher’s salaries back in 2007, Louisiana has fallen behind. Kelley Ray has more…
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Legislators are at work today in Baton Rouge working out the details of a potential compromise that would solve the looming fiscal cliff. The Ways and Means committee heard a series of tax proposals that are a part of the governor’s reform package, and the appropriations committee advanced measures to establish a spending cap, and the Louisiana Checkbook transparency initiative that would create a website that displays every state agencies expenditures.
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