The DEA is reducing the number of opioids that pharmaceutical companies are allowed to make for the third year in a row as the opioid addiction crisis continues to claim on average 115 American lives a day. Prescription opioids will see a ten percent reduction in production. Senator John Kennedy praised the organization for the reductions but says laws regulating the production of opioids need major changes.
Max Gruver’s family is suing LSU, that national and local Phi Delta Theta fraternities, and individuals in the fraternity for 25 million dollars in a civil suit related to Max’s death last year in an alleged hazing incident. Baton Rouge Lawyer and Legal Analyst Franz Borghardt says suing public institutions is notoriously difficult, but in this situation they have a good case.
Attorney General Jeff Landry is defending the 7-6 vote of the Bond Commission to exclude Citibank and Bank of America as part of a $600 million road financing plan in the state. Both were omitted from the financial plan after placing gun control regulations on commercial banking customers. Landry says he hopes to send a message to banks around the nation with the exclusion.
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Since taking office in January 2017, US Congressman Mike Johnson has held thirty-one town hall meetings in the state’s fourth district, adding three more this past week. Although the conflicts have recently cooled down, Johnson says other politicians were deterred from town hall participation by protestors.