The Tax Foundation ranks Louisiana as having the ninth least business-friendly tax code in the nation. Policy Analyst Janelle Cammenga says the Bayou State gets poor marks because of its high sales tax rate, above-average corporate tax rate and Louisiana has a franchise tax…
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Lawmakers will have to wait until next year’s fiscal session to address this.

Legislators have been filing bills for the non-fiscal session that begins March 9th. Covington Representative Mark Wright has filed a constitutional amendment that would ask voters if they want the governor and lieutenant governor running on the same ticket…
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It will take a two-thirds vote by the legislature and a majority yes votes from the public for the amendment to pass.
Roses are red, violets are blue. The marriage rate is dipping, but the divorce rate is too…
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The Louisiana Family Forum says for the second year in a row Wallace and Gladys Menard will be honored on this Valentine’s Day as the state’s longest known married couple. They’ve been married for 81 years.

College baseball returns tonight, 11th ranked LSU hosts Indiana and the Ragin Cajuns face Southeastern Louisiana in the first game for UL-Lafayette since the death of longtime coach Tony Robichaux.