Governor Bobby Jindal kept on attacking republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump during a second-tier debate on CNN. Jindal says Trump is not a true republican and not a serious candidate. Jindal and three other candidates also gave their views on immigration. Jindal renewed his call for immigrant assimilation…
cut 14 (10) “…secure the border”

The new president of the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association hopes the next governor and legislature will remove or raise the cap on credits that movie producers can redeem as part of the state’s film tax credit program. Robert Vosbein says they’re losing business to Georgia because of the current 180-million dollar cap…
cut 5 (11) “…stop that”

City and parish leaders from Baton Rouge to New Orleans want to see the next governor work towards building a commuter rail line that would connect the state’s two biggest cities. Kristen Palmer, chairwoman of the Louisiana Super Region Rail Authority, says such an investment is needed with over 20-billion dollars in economic development projects planned for the region and there’s already 30-thousand people who commute between B-R and NOLA every day…
cut 9 (09) “…the region”
The rail authority says it would cost 262-million dollars to build the rail line.