Will the House agree to a sales tax rate above four-percent in an effort to avoid significant cuts to state services. Connor Ferrill says we’ll find out today…
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Governor John Bel Edwards says he’s optimistic the legislature is ont he right track to a successful conclusion of the special session. But members of the Legislative Black Caucus says they will vote against any sales tax proposal that doesn’t fill the entire deficit. None of the measures approved in committee yesterday do so.

The Louisiana Public Service Commission has approved the Wind Catcher plan from SWEPCO to purchase the nation’s largest wind-power project that is currently under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle. North Louisiana Commissioner Foster Campbell led the argument in favor of proposed project.
Cut 7 (05) “…wind is free.”
The lone no vote came from PSC member Craig Greene of Baton Rouge, who says he could not vote to have SWEPCO customers finance an unneeded generation project that will only save them money if the price fo natural gas increases singificantly.

US Representative Ralph Abraham of Richland Parish has cosponsored legislation to expand I-14 into Central Louisiana and Mississippi. I-14 currently ends a few miles west of Temple, Texas. Abraham says the legislation is waiting for a hearing in a House committee and it has the support of congressmen from Texas and Mississippi…
Cut 4 (08) “….into the economy”
Abraham says there is federal money for the project, but the state will have to pay a portion of the costs.