The House is set to try again today on passing tax proposals that will go towards closing a one-billion dollar budget deficit. A sales tax bill that would generate 300-million dollars annually was soundly defeated on Wednesday, but House Speaker Taylor Barras says
If the legislature cannot pass any bills to replace a billion dollars in sales taxes that are set to expire on June 30th, significant cuts would be needed to balance the budget. Barras remains optimistic
Lawmakers are running out of time as the special session to pass revenue generating measures must end Wednesday night.
The Reverend Billy Graham will be laid to rest today in North Carolina. There is a Louisiana connection. The 99-year-old evangelist will be buried in a coffin made by prisoners at Angola. Former inmate David Bacon says his life wouldn’t be what it is today, had it not been for him to meet Graham while he was at Angola…
Graham’s wife Ruth, who died in 2007, is also buried in one of the Angola caskets.
Four months of construction work will begin Saturday on the I-10 bridge in Lake Charles. DOTD spokesman Rodney Mallet says 8.5 million dollar project will initially close the inside eastbound lane so crews can replace expansion joints on the nearly 60-year-old structure.
The joints need to be replaced because the I-10 Lake Charles Bridge will take on more traffic when a re-decking project gets underway on I-210.