37-thousand people enrolled in Medicaid have been told they no longer qualify for the taxpayer funded health care coverage, because they make too much money. Louisiana Health Secretary Rebekah Gee says a new computer system does a more thorough job of checking to make sure a Medicaid recipient qualifies for the program…
cut 8 (08) “…effectively managing”
If you received one of these notifications and can’t prove you no longer meet the income qualifications, your Medicaid coverage will end by March 31st.

LSU announces the administrators put on leave last week so an investigation can be conducted into what they knew about the hazing allegations at Delta Kappa Epsilon have been cleared of any wrongdoing. LSU says an investigation determined they did not try to sweep under the rug accusations of hazing that were allegedly taking place inside the DKE frat house.

Federal and state officials signed an agreement to allow construction on a $760 million flood protection project estimated to benefit over 60,000 people in St. James, St. John and St. Charles parishes. Congressman Garret Graves says it took 45 years for the state to gain the funding and construction on 18.5 miles of earthen levees should begin later this year.
Cut 5 (08)“…being made here.”
The levees will protect against storm surge that impaced the river parishes during Hurricane Isaac in 2012.

Six men will be inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame in Winnfield today. They are former Secretary of State Paul Hardy, former first gentleman Raymond Blanco, the husband of former governor Kathleen Blanco, the C-E-O of Acaidan Ambulance Richard Zuschlag, former state representative Ron Gomez, Fourth circuit court of appeals judge Edwin Lombard and Marion Edwards, who is the late brother to former governor Edwin Edwards.