GOP lawmakers express their concerns to state health officials over audits that show misspent dollars within the Medicaid program. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Over a thousand students packed the lawn for UL Systems day to call attention to the needs of the 92,000 students studying at one of nine system colleges. U-L System President Jim Henderson celebrated the fact that this year’s event was certainly more upbeat than last year’s.

The Senate has gone home for the week and won’t be back until Monday.
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After failing for five months to recognizing additional revenues, the four member Revenue Estimating Conference adopted an income forecast that will give lawmakers an additional 110-million dollars in this year’s budget to spend and another 119-million dollars in next year’s budget.
House Speaker Taylor Barras “Yes” vote broke the gridlock, but he had previously blocked attempts to raise the forecast earlier this year because he was concerned the state may not collect as much money as projected. The House Speaker relented on Wednesday after hearing revenue projections from two different economists…
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Legislation in the House is bringing attention to law enforcement profiling of motorcycle riders. Many Representative Frank Howard says is sponsoring a bill that would add a 30 minute motorcyclist profiling awareness session to the training academy.
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