The Edwards administration and GOP legislators continue to exchange barbs over the decision to mail benefit cancellation warnings to 37,000 Medicaid patients. Lafayette Representative, Republican Nancy Landry, blamed the Medicaid budget cuts on John Bel Edwards.
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But the Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne pushed back, arguing that the feds require Medicaid recipients to be informed of program cancellations ahead of time. Dardenne says Republican House legislators approved a budget that called for deep cuts in funding for health care services…
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A special session is set to begin next Tuesday so lawmakers can pass revenue measures to avoid deep budget cuts.

Camp J, which is where Angola housed inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, has been closed and the prisoners have been moved to other facilities. Department of Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc says the decision is in part due to new standards that were adopted while working with criminal justice reform organiziations….
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Louisiana is known for its hot summers, but we are already seeing temperatures in the mid 90s in mid-May. Michael Hill, with the National Weather Service in New Orleans on why it’s been so hot this week…
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Hill says temperatures should be a little cooler tomorrow as the chance for rain increases. Northwest Louisiana is under a marginal risk for severe weather.