Republican David Vitter announces he has four-point-two million dollars in cash on hand for the upcoming governor’s race after raising 1-point-1 million dollars. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley says Vitter has an edge over the other candidates, because of relationships he’s been able to build as a Senator…
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Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the BP rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana creating the largest environmental disaster in US history. Filmmaker Margaret Brown has put together a documentary on the event and its aftermath and she feels more should be done…
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Brown’s documentary, the “Great Invisible” airs tonight on LPB at 9:30.
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In the Louisiana legislature, a bill has cleared the House Appropriations Committee that would taper off the transfer of money from the state’s road and bridge fund to state police. Lafayette Representative Terry Landry is the bill’s author, who’s also a a former state police commander. He says robbing Peter to pay Paul is not a good thing…:
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Right now the state diverts about 65 million dollars from the Transportation Trust fund to State Police. Landry wants to have the sliding scale reductions down to 40 million in July; 25 million dollars next year, and 10 million in future years.

Funeral arrangements for Rock and Roll hall of famer and Louisianian Precy Sledge have been announced. Visitation is tomorrow at Bethany World Pray Center in Baker from 8 am to 11am, with funeral services to follow at 11 am. The advocate dot com will stream the event.