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In case you missed it in LaPolitics (08.20.24)
Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…
— NIP & TUCK: Speaker Phillip DeVillier says “finding efficiencies in government and creating a more predictable tax structure for the state” will be necessary to balance the budget. Here are the next steps…
— BUDGETING BY LAWSUIT: A criminal justice funding crunch in St. Tammany Parish has moved the spending debate from the political arena to the courthouse…
— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “New technology was demonstrated during the CCA Legislators’ Rodeo that appears to hold great promise for enabling LDWF and others to collect better data across Louisiana’s ever-changing coast,” said David Cresson, executive director and CEO with CCA Louisiana…
— FIELD NOTES: Rep. Barbara Freiberg and Rep. Vanessa Caston LaFleur have been named to the Council of State Governments 2024 Henry Toll Fellowship Class…
— SHOP TALK: Disaster resilience is a state-federal balancing act…
— OUR HISTORY: At the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered the most famous (some would say infamous) quote of the election…
— THEY SAID IT: “If you hear it from me, you print it. If not, you print whatever you want.” —Gordon Dove, chair of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, on word of a potential settlement over the future of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.
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