Governor Jeff Landry is holding a press conference today at 10 AM to discuss tax reform. Sean Richardson has more.
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A traveler reported a suspicious looking rolled up tarp on Hwy 51 in Northern Tangipahoa Parish Sunday which led authorities to a grisly discovery. Colleen Crain has the story…
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Louisiana’s governor is featured in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Governor Jeff Landry holds a press conference today to discuss tax reform. The Landry Administration is interested in lowering the state’s income tax rate for everyone and offset the revenue loss by eliminating certain tax breaks. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the administration’s goal is to simplify the state’s tax code
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Landry is set to provide more details at a 10 AM press conference on the fourth floor of the state capitol. Pinsonat says Louisiana residents will support a lower state income tax rate, but the tax reform plan will call for a sales tax on services that are currently not taxed and the elimination of certain tax breaks
Pinsonat says the Landry Administration is eying a November special session on tax reform. He says it’s an issue that will be difficult for the public to understand, but the governor will make the case that it needs to be done to improve Louisiana’s economy…
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America has its first centenarian president, as Jimmy Carter turns 100 years old today. Carter was elected as the 39th president in 1976 and served a single term in office from 1977 to 1981. Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell served in the Louisiana State Senate during Carter’s presidency.
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Carter is viewed by many to be America’s greatest ex-president through his work with Habitat for Humanity and other humanitarian causes, including fighting disease all over the world.
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Campbell says even after Carter ascended to the top of the political mountain in the 1970s, he never forgot or abandoned his roots.
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Carter taught Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains up until a few years ago, when his health prevented him from continuing to do so. Not only does Carter have the longest lifespan of anyone who ever served as President, but he also has the longest post-presidential retirement at almost 44 years and counting.
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The body of a Baton Rouge man was found rolled in a tarp on the side of Highway 51 between Fluker and the Village of Tangipahoa Sunday morning. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff, Gerald Sticker says the man identified as 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham was a victim of homicide by blunt force trauma…
Sticker says they do not believe Abraham was killed where his body was found due to the way it was wrapped. He says they are working their way back from the discovery scene to determine where the heinous crime occurred and find those responsible.
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A passerby traveling along the highway first reported a suspicious looking rolled-up tarp on the side of a rural part of Hwy 51. Sticker says the highway parallels I-55 from Manchac to Mississippi but there are only a few houses and businesses near where Abraham was found…
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Rolling Stone magazine is out with an in-depth article profiling Governor Landry, In it, author Lorena O’Neil details his moves that she says is taking Louisiana to the far right. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley read the article and says O’Neil’s portrayal is accurate.
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O’Neil outlined the moves Landry has made in his first year in office that has garnered national headlines, including signing a bill to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in classrooms, criminalizing medications used in abortions and allowing surgical castration for certain sex crimes against minors. The story calls Landry the most extreme governor in the country, a notion that Stockley says he would stop short of.
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O’Neil goes on to say that if Trump wins the election next month that he may ask Landry to join his cabinet. Although Landry has stated that he intends to serve as Governor of Louisiana, Stockley says he could see Landry bolting for Trump’s cabinet.
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And Stockley agrees with O’Neil that he could see Landry make a run for the White House one day.
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The Ragin Cajuns won a wild game over Wake Forest on Saturday, beating the Demon Deacons 41 to 38. Coach Michael Desormeaux is glad to see his team win a tight game
The 3-and-1 Cajuns are at 1-and-3 Southern Miss this Saturday.
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LSU has this Saturday off, giving the Tigers an extra week to improve before their much anticipated clash with Ole Miss on the night of October 12th. Coach Brian Kelly has been rotating several players in at safety, but now it’s time to pick two or three guys and let them be the guys to lead the back end of the defense…
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The Saints are two and two and in both losses New Orleans could not hold on to a late lead. The Saints are 8-and-14 in score games under coach Dennis Allen. Allen stuck with a man to man defense in both cases, instead of going zone. Allen defended the decision when he met with reporters on Monday…
The Saints are at Kansas City on Monday.
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ULM is 3-and-1 after hard fought 13 to nine win over Troy on Saturday. Coach Bryant Vincent likes the identity of his team…
The Warhawks will host undefeated James Madison in what is one of the biggest games at Malone Stadium in years. Vincent says it should be a special night in Monroe on Saturday night…
Kick-off is at 6 PM.