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What You Missed in LaPolitics (06.18.24)
Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…
—PARTY TIME: National conventions don’t really pick the presidential candidates anymore, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be drama later this summer when Republicans meet in July and Democrats follow suit in August…
—LOCAL ELECTIONS ABOUND: There’s going to be plenty of local action on the Nov. 5 ballot this fall, with Louisiana’s villages, towns and cities hosting 77 mayoral races…
—LaPOLITICS Q&A: “BESE will have a lot of work to do [regarding education savings accounts] because they have to set up many of the rules, clarify how they will hold private schools accountable, collect and report a lot of data, and figure out how much money will be available to families,” Council for a Better Louisiana President and CEO Barry Erwin…
—FIELD NOTES: The state Treasury will mail 27,842 unclaimed property checks totaling $5.1 million following a data match to update addresses with the Louisiana Department of Revenue…
—SHOP TALK: Non-profit tech vendor looks to expand down-ballot tools with new collaboration…
—OUR HISTORY: On June 15, 1908, the Legislature voted unanimously to carve Evangeline Parish out of northern St. Landry Parish, though that was not the end of the Acadiana parish’s origin story…
—THEY SAID IT: “If folks can use campaign money to buy Saints, Southern and LSU tickets, I certainly think [child care] should be permissible.” —Former state representative and current candidate for mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Ted James, in The Illuminator
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