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The old 2-year college try
In the past five hard years of higher education’s declining state support, rising tuition, defecting faculty and deteriorating facilities, college leaders have stuck together and let the Board of...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Well-Being Index shows shate at another low ranking
If legislators have time in the current session between trying to balance the budget and keep the state afloat, they might try to come up with some creative ways to keep Louisiana out of these cont...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legislature’s reckless bill slap to higher education funding
A bill bouncing around in the legislature that would allow state community and technical colleges to sell bonds for construction projects without going through approval procedures required of unive...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Notes from the Legislature
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The House refused Tuesday to relinquish legislative control over tuition hikes for students at Louisiana's public colleges. A proposal by Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, ...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legislators ignoring public opinion on term limts
Louisiana voters have demonstrated overwhelming support for the concept of term limits for elected officials over the years, but a bill that would have placed limited terms for statewide elected of...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Regrettable that legislators feel need to protect money
It is a sad commentary on the state budget process in Louisiana that legislators feel it is necessary to protect settlement funds from the BP oil spill by seeking a constitutional amendment to assu...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hospitals change will cost state $42 million
Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to privatize all but one of the LSU-run hospitals across south Louisiana will cost the state an estimated $42 million to make the ...
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Surplus envy: States doing better
Through the last five years of ongoing, agonizing budget deficits and mid-year cuts, Louisiana politicians could at least console themselves knowing that other states were grappling with the same ...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Losses on internet sales tax costing State $800 million
Louisiana loses more than $800 million a year in sales taxes on Internet purchases, and a proposal being debated in Congress would allow this state and others to collect those taxes. There is clea...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legislature should promote ways to collect millions
Louisiana legislators should adopt a proposal that has already been approved by the House Ways and Means Committee to create an Office of Debt Recovery to help collect millions of dollars that indi...
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