After a week of difficult negotitions the House has approved legislation that sets Louisiana’s sales tax rate at 4.45 percent after July 1st and that would supply enough revenue to prevent cuts to higher education and the TOPS scholarship program. Baton Rouge Representative Paula Davis had this message for her colleagues before the critical vote….
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The measure needed 70 votes and it got 74.

It now heads to the Senate. Leaders in the upper chamber have a back-up plan in case this sales tax proposal doesn’t make it through the process. They’ve introduced legislation to keep the sales tax rate at 5-percent for up to the next 14 months. Senate President John Alario….
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But for now the Senate will first consider the sales tax bill passed by the House.

US Senator John Kennedy has attached legislation to an appropriations bill that prohibits federal employees from purchasing first class airplane tickets with taxpayer money. Kennedy says in a recent three-year period an extra one-million dollars in taxpayer money went to unnecessary first class tickets…
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Kennedy believes the amendment will make it to the President’s desk.

A four star quarterback from Alabama announced on Twitter he plans on attending LSU. Peter Parrish’s verbal commitment gives the Tigers 14 commitments for their 2019 class. Tiger Rag Associate Editor James Moran says Parrish can run a speedy 4.5 in the 40 and scouts say he’s improving as a passer
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Parrish’s verbal pledge follows up the commitment on Wednesday from one of the top cornerbacks in the country, Derek Stingley Junior.