Legislature
State Legislature Aims For “Sunset” On Jindal’s Medicaid Reform Plan
Jindal's proposal was an effort to lessen the strain of Louisiana's health care spending while improving [...]
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Guest Commentary: Louisiana Income Tax Repeals Practical and Desirable in Near Term
Sadow: "With little disruption Louisiana could wipe out its corporate income tax in a little over a [...]
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B.R. Advocate Letter: The Fallacy of an “Ultraconservative Orthodoxy” in Louisiana
Kevin Kane: The B.R. Advocate's Lenny Keller has described the Louisiana legislature as ultraconservative [...]
Read moreCommentary: Police Pension Funds Blown on Bad Investments, Taxpayers Stuck With Bill
MPERS gambled with public money, and lost. If this were a private company, these disastrous mistakes [...]
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Guest Commentary: Higher Admission Standards Provide Compelling Case for SUNO-UNO Merger
Higher admission standards for Louisiana's colleges are set to all but wipe out the student body of [...]
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Commentary: Crescent City Connection Dysfunction Needs Legislative Action
The drastic mismanagement and squandering of resources highlights the need to greatly scale back the [...]
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Guest Commentary: Louisiana Redistricting Plan Should Clear, Unless Politics Interfere
LSU-Shreveport political science professor, Jeffrey Sadow, explains the confusing and blurred constraints [...]
Read moreCommentary: New Jersey’s Christie Provides Template for Reducing State Expenditures
Given our state’s looming budget deficit budget deficit and recent blows to the oil and shipping [...]
Read moreCommentary: Teachers’ Union Rhetoric Distorts Benefits of New Education Law
"The LTF is insinuating that [HB 1368] will allow BESE to make arbitrary policy decisions against the [...]
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