The House Criminal Justice Committee is holding a hearing today on the Death Penalty. The last execution in Louisiana was 2010. Attorney General Jeff Landry has invited family members of victims whose killers are on death row in the hopes of jump starting executions again….
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The Edwards administration says the drugs needed to put a person to death are not readily available

The legislative session is about a month away and legalizing sports betting in Louisiana will be a hot topic. An effort to legalize it in 2018 fell flat. LaPolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford says the same groups that stalled last year’s effort are likely to be back again…
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Supporters of legalizing sports betting say it will help Louisiana cainos compete with Mississippi casino parlors.

Governor John Bel Edwards spoke to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education this morning to urge them to include a one-thousand dollar teacher pay raise as part of their public education funding request to the legislature. Edwards says teaching is an underappreciated profession and he wants to change that…
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Edwards has made teacher pay raises his number one priority in the upcoming legislative session.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy says he’s reintroducing the College Transparency Act. Cassidy says the legislation will force colleges to make certain data available to the public, so students can make a determination if a particular school is right for them…
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Cassidy says LSU President F King Alexander supports the legislation.