There’s a new budget dispute between the Edwards administration and House Republican leadership. During a Revenue Estimating Conference meeting, House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry would not go along with a recommendation by economists to upgrade the state’s economic forecast, because he doesn’t want the state to spend more money than it collects. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne…
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Dardenne says Henry’s action prevents the state from giving various agencies an additional 43-million dollars and he says it threatens an attempt to give teachers a pay raise next year. But Henry calls that more fearmongering from the Edwards administration….
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Henry says the R-E-C should wait a few months to get a clearer picture of the state’s finances.

The National Flood Insurance Program is set to expire on Friday, but Senator John Kennedy says they can’t afford for that to happen so they are looking to extend the N-F-I-P for at least another six months….
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Kennedy also says he plans on making an announcement by Monday on whether he’ll run for governor in 2019.

Did running for Congress against Garret Graves cost Justin DeWitt his job? DeWitt said on Talk Louisiana that he was let go from his job as a surveyor for the Baton Rouge-based SJB Group. He says his former firm benefited from the work Graves does in Congress….
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S-J-B issued a statement that says they wish Mr. DeWitt the best of everything in his future endeavors.