We’ve have yet to hear if Governor Edwards will veto the budget approved in the the second special session. Edwards is likely to call a third special session this year to see if legislators can approve a sales tax bill that would generate 500-million dollars, so that TOPS, higher ed, department of corrections and children and family services are fully funded. Shreveport Representative Alan Seabaugh says instead of a third special session, the governor could reduce state spending so TOPS is fully funded…
cut 13 (11) “…on Medicaid”

Meanwhile, Bogalusa Representative Malinda White says she will not accept her pay for a third special session….
cut 4 (10) “…most vulnerable children”
White’s donation is expected to be about 15-hundred dollars.

Livingston Parish deputies arrested 33-year-old Christopher Glenn of Denham Springs after he allegedly stabbed 44-year-old Tosha Smith multiple times…
cut 14 (05) “…in that incident’
That’s Livingston Parish Sheriff’s office spokesperson Lori Steel, who says another woman was also injured and several children were inside the home at the time of the attack in Denham Springs.

Public school teachers in Monroe will receive a two-percent pay raise next school year, their first increase in ten years. Superintendent Brent Vidrine hopes the increase will boost morale. But President of the Monroe Federation of Teachers Sandie Lollie says a tw-percent increase is not a lot of money.

Bossier Parish Sheriff Julian Whittingon says eight-thousand tickets have been issued to drivers for allegedly driving uninsured cars and trucks. The parish installed license plate readers at dozens intersections last year and the citations cost guilty individuals 200-dollars.