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What you may have missed in LaPolitics Weekly
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Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…
— ROAD TO REFORM: Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious tax overhaul would hinge in part on voter approval of a constitutional amendment in a sleepy March election when turnout might not reach 20 percent…
— TOURISM PROS SWEAT THE DETAILS: Travel and tourism officials got a scare earlier this month when they noticed Gov. Jeff Landry’s tax package messed with a key tax stream for the industry…
— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “There has been a consistent appetite for creating a simpler plan for what a teacher teaches in the classroom. We want to free up the teachers to help them be functional and happier about what they do,” said Senate Education Chair Rick Edmonds, about what’s next for his committee…
— FIELD NOTES: The Boston Consulting Group report that is meant to inform the Landry administration’s efforts to reorganize the Department of Transportation and Development has been completed and delivered to the Legislature…
— SHOP TALK: States have big climate plans, but November could change things…
— OUR HISTORY: Just before dawn on September 23, 1810, about 50 men, led by Revolutionary War veteran Philemon Thomas, walked in the open gate of Fort San Carlos in Baton Rouge…
— THEY SAID IT: “There are too many couyons in Washington D.C. We need a country boy with country-boy common sense to go and help get them on track.” — Congressional candidate Elbert Guillory
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