The 2019 legislative session gets underway today and since its a fiscal session, lawmakers can propose tax increases. There is a bill to increase the state’s gasoline tax, but it faces opposition from anti-tax groups like the Americans for Prosperity. State Director John Kay says before the state considers a higher gasoline tax, it should dedicate the current 20-cent gas tax completely to infrastructure and not use a portion to pay for salaries within the transportation department…
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Legalizing sports betting and a proposal to extend Harrah’s New Orleans Casino’s land license for another 30 years will also be hotly debated. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…
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The session gets underway after noon today.

A Houma man is in jail after an investigation by State Fire Marshal deputies and the Houma Police Department into a vehicle fire that killed a man. Fire Marshal spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue says David Mason is accused of intentionally setting the blaze that resulted in the death of 39-year-old Wayne Winter, Jr.
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Rodrigue says Mason now faces a litany of charges following the March 31st incident.

The Louisiana Health Department has selected Asegua Therapeutics to provide the state with medication to treat Medicaid patients and prisoners who have hepatitis C. L-D-H Secretary Rebekah Gee says Asegua’s medication has an overall cure rate of 98-percent across all six main types of Hep C…
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And Gee says less than three percent of Medicaid patients with Hep C were treated last year.