Louisiana Treasury Secretary John Schroder estimates the state will have an over 300 million dollar budget surplus from last year after revenues out performed expectations. Shroder says s having a significant surplus isn’t a good look for a state that just renewed hundreds of millions in expired sales taxes in the last legislative session.
Schroder says if this kind of excess revenue is projected to continue, he would advocate lowering the sales tax rate, but the governor’s office says any estimates before October’s audit completion are premature.
The United Cajun Navy is currently in North Carolina as the area is experiencing massive flooding from Hurricane Florence. Founder of the group, Todd Terrell, says water rescues are already taking place around the clock.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a Winnsboro man had roadkill in the cooler of his restaurant and then took it home to butcher it. 61-year-old Somchanh Chanthapanya was cited for possession of a spotted fawn. L-D-W-F’s Adam Einck says
A bill that would increase the share of offshore energy revenues for Gulf States sailed out of a U-S House committee with little opposition. States with land-based energy production receive a substantially higher percentage of revenues than states that support offshore drilling. Congressman Garret Graves says says in 2016, the feds gathered 99 percent of all offshore revenues, which is not the case for land-based drilling.