Baton Rouge Representative Steve Carter is proposing legislation that would increase the gasoline tax 18-cents a gallon over the next 12 years. Carter says last week’s traffic nightmare in the Capital City because of a damaged bridge is another reason why the state needs better bridges…
Carter’s bill would increase state transportation dollars by 430-million dollars per year.
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services releases a report that finds the number of reported juvenile trafficking victims rose by 20-percent in 2018. Child welfare manager Christy Tate says they don’t think the crime of human trafficking is getting worse, but there’s greater awareness
Overall in 2018, there were 744 confirmed victims of trafficking, 58-percent were juveniles and as young as five months old.
Louisiana has the highest level of stress in the nation according to research from the personal finance website WalletHub…
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Attorney General Jeff Landry is backing legislation in the upcoming session that would guarantee healthcare coverage for pre-existing conditions and other patient projections, if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional. The A-G has been an outspoken critic of the A-C-A, and says this bill is part of the solution…
The Edwards administration also has a bill addressing the possibility of people losing insurance if the A-C-A is ruled unconstitutional.