The proposal backed in an 18-4 vote by the Appropriations Committee would give TOPS one-third of the new money, $67 million ...
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 ...
If the expectation pans out, it would worsen state financial problems in the upcoming budget year that begins July 1 ...
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 ...
Pressure is being put on members of the House tax committee, who are deciding whether to scale back a tax deduction for upper-income earners ...
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 ...
Until House lawmakers agree to more taxes for next year's budget than they've supported so far ...
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 ...
Edwards described rejection of his proposal as "putting politics over people." ...
A budget that counts on private investment could count out completing the Connector any time soon ...
Drago's set to take over the location in August ...
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 ...
Six candidates vie for permanent job; no timeline released for selection process ...
