There are signs of progress on a compromise to solve a looming one-billion dollar budget deficit. Lake Charles Representative Stephen Dwight says the House will re-convene on Sunday and he expects legislation dealing with Medicaid reform, reducing federal excess itemized tax deductions and his sales tax proposal will start moving through the legislative process…
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The special session ends March 7th.
Long time Louisiana Republican Leader Roger Villere will relinquish his role Saturday after 14 years. When he took over as GOP Chair, the only Republican statewide official was the late Secretary of State Fox McKeithen. Now it has completely flipped the other way. Villere says there’s also been an increase in registered Republican voters…
The Storm Prediction Center says there is a slight risk for severe weather Saturday. Forecaster Davyon Hill with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says the entire state should see rain on Saturday, but most of the nasty weather will remain in the north.
Planned Parenthood wants a federal judge to force Louisiana’s health department to allow its New Orleans clinic to perform abortions. The Associated Press says the lawsuit filed claims the Edwards’ administration, through the Louisiana health department, has put up unconstitutional roadblocks to prevent them from moving forward. Planned parenthood says the legal fight has lasted nearly a year and a half. The lawsuit challenges as unconstitutional both the delays in approval of the abortion clinic license and a 2016 law pushed by Edwards to block Medicaid financing for entities that perform abortions in Louisiana.