With only four days remaining in the special session, the options for drumming up more money for the financial year that begins July 1 are dwindling ...
Louisiana's state senators Thursday backed a package of bills estimated to raise at least $400 million for next year's budget, while the House has refused so far to budge beyond about half that amount ...
Louisiana House and Senate leaders reached a deal Thursday for handling the budget bill that will spend the tax dollars raised during the special legislative session ...
The compromise would involve making the bill temporary and including a mechanism to shrink the money raised from the bill if other taxes bring in more than expected ...
Lawmakers in the Louisiana House agreed Thursday to tax bills that would raise more than $220 million next year, slightly more than one-third of the target set by Gov. John Bel Edwards to balance the budget ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...