Louisiana’s uninsured rate dropped to eight percent in 2018, which is about a full point below the national average. Louisiana Budget Project Director Jan Moller says the uninsured rate has been cut in half since 2013 thanks to Governor Edwards’ decision to expand the Medicaid program
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The uninsured rate in 2013 was 16.6 percent in Louisiana per the Census Bureau.

The Louisiana Public Service Commission votes to lower financial incentive that future rooftop solar customers will get when they sell excess energy generated to power companies. Solar installers say this will kill their future business, but P-S-C Chairman Mike Francis says customers who do not have solar panels were subsidizing the program and it’s not fair to them…
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A poll of 500 Louisiana chronic voters finds that 54-percent of them approve of Governor Edwards’s job performance. President Donald Trump received the same approval rating in the survey. Bernie Pinsonat conducted the poll…
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Edwards’s disapproval rating is 42-percent.

LSU’s offense is the talk of college football and Matt Doyle reports new technology has helped produce the early results…
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