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Tic Toc! Louisiana budget clock tolls if legislature, Edwards don't fix cliff
Written by Stephen Sabludowsky
Tic Toc. Tic Toc.
Roughly nine hours to go. When the clock strikes 12 midnight tonight, despite commonly-held belief, the princess won’t turn into a rag. But, if the Louisiana legislature and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards do not resolve their differences, the bells would have tolled and the Louisiana legislative session will have collapsed again over the issue of the budget. Some call this process, fixing the fiscal cliff.
CRUNCH TIME: Louisiana Budget Project's Jan Moller discusses fiscal session last days
Written by Stephen Sabludowsky
Crunch time.
Only four full days, excluding today, left in the second extraordinary fiscal session of the Louisiana legislature called to fix the fiscal cliff, 2018.
Will the Louisiana legislature be able to come to an agreement prior to Monday midnight? Will a legislative agreement include more cuts to higher education, the hospitals, TOPS, the prison system and government infrastructure? If so, will the governor John Bel Edwards sign the budget into law?
Governor John Bel Edwards's could use help with Louisiana budget, legislature
Written by Stephen Sabludowsky
What’s a governor to do? What’s a Louisiana governor to do?
Which was somewhat the issue discussed yesterday. That’s when long-time State elected official and political observer Jim Brown and equally long-time political writer Tom Aswell (publisher of LouisianaVoice) and I got together online to talk about the current budget mess up in Baton Rouge. That mess might also be known as the “second special Louisiana Legislative fiscal session of 2018”. If the mess is not cleaned sufficiently over the next seven days, there is talk about a third crack at getting it right.
The Governor in question, of course is Democrat John Bel Edwards. He has started his third year in office and is trying to get his agenda and budget plans through the Republican-dominated legislature. His approach is a blend of taxes and spending cuts.
Senator Wesley Bishop concerned about lack of services due to Louisiana budget woes
Written by Bayoubuzz Staff
The Louisiana legislature is back in session for the fiscal budget fix. The assumption and perhaps conventional wisdom is that the legislature will somehow compromise on the $650 to $670 million dollar shortfall compared to last year’s budget for government services. But, that is no certainty.
Earlier this year, when there was roughly a billion dollar shortage, the legislature failed to pass a budget and while the current projected budget is now smaller, it would still take compromising on the part of all the lawmakers and the Governor, John Bel Edwrds.
Edwards, Nungesser star in "Our Louisiana" or "Political Theater", opening special session
Written by Stephen Sabludowsky
"Our Louisiana" or Political Theater?
It depends on your politics and your choice of theaters, perhaps
Today, in Lafayette Louisiana Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards and Republican Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser started the sixth special session in two and a half years to deal with the Louisiana budget woes, left from the prior governor, Republican Bobby Jindal.
Louisiana Oil and Gas looks for fairness during Louisiana fiscal legislative session
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Louisiana Oil and Gas looks for fairness during Louisiana fiscal legislative session as the sixth special session starts today
Today, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and lt. Governor Billy Nungesser are addressing a large crowd in Lafayette Louisiana as part of a new promotion of “Our Louisiana”. The obvious goal is to fashion some type of settlement so that the State of Louisiana can balance this year’s budget and perhaps, create a fairer and more stable method to structure the receipt of revenues and the payment of government services. The special session, starting today, is the sixth--focused upon dealing with major shortages in the state’s budget.
Occupation licenses reforms won't occur with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards
Written by Jeffrey Sadow
In the end, the lure of a sensible, popular reform lost out to politics as usual as practiced by Louisiana governors.At the beginning of the regular session just concluded, as part of his legislative package Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards included occupational licensing reform. It led to speculation that he might lead a move against unnecessary and onerous regulations that stifled business and professional development.
Louisiana legislature, "stupid is as stupid does" with higher ed non-funding
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by Ron Chapman
It has taken a while, but Louisiana has finally achieved the distinction of passing up Mississippi. After a lot of effort, finally, we are LAST in Education.
According to Wallethub, a credit scoring company, “Louisiana has the worst public school system in the nation.” The state scored 48th in Math, 48th in Reading, 45th in drop-out rates, and 47th in ACT scores. Only 29% of the population is college educated. That should not be surprising when the state scores 40th in college readiness and 44th in High School graduation percentages.
Governor Edwards, Lt. Guv Nungesser in "Our Louisiana" road show to open fiscal session
Written by Bayoubuzz Staff
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, in his sixth special session he will have called since he took office in 2016, apparantly has decided to break from the past, to mix things up a little bit and possibly surround himself among more friendly quarters when he opens the two-week budgetary battle-- with a speech.
Unlike the traditonal gubernatorial address held on the House of Representative floor, Edwards will take to the University of Lafayette campus. Along with him will be Republican Billy Nungesser, the Lt. Governor and other "stakeholders".
Budgetary chaos reigns at Louisiana capitol with special session
Written by Guest OpEDby Stephen Waguespack, President and CEO of Louisiana Business and Industry 
For almost three years, the state Capitol has been absolutely, positively one thing: chaotic.
The 6th special session during this time-period begins this week and will once again pit the Administration’s desire for tax revenue against the Legislature’s lack of consensus on that very topic. This plotline should sound familiar by now.
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Louisiana legislature stands up against protesters damaging oil pipelines
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This just-completed Louisiana regular session was known, in part, for its division—left vs. right, Democrats vs. Republicans, House of Representatives vs. Senators. However, every once in a while, the legislators came to agreements.
Maness: Budget naysayers mainly on left not satisfied with Louisiana budget
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The Louisiana legislative session, part two, is finally coming to an end. Part one occurred earlier this year as a special fiscal session, in which the legislature could not agree upon a budget at all. However, given that the legislature could not raise revenues during the part two or regular session this year, that just might occur on Tuesday, when another special session kicks off, or, shall we say, legislative session, part three?
Why Louisiana Governor Edwards has difficulty with a Republican-controlled legislature?
Written by Stephen Sabludowsky
Why is Governor John Bel Edwards having so many problems with the Louisiana legislature? Is he simply a weak administrator who--for one reason or not--cannot get the Republican dominated legislative bodies to support his agenda? Or is he a strong governor who simply faces a recalcitrant republican-controlled legislature and GOP-based business community, who are using their political clout to limit his power for political purposes? Or, are there some other reasons?
Louisiana needs viable third party candidates, independent political party, not just Dems, GOP
Written by Jim Brown
Political parties are at a low ebb both in Louisiana and throughout the rest of the country. Public opinion often dips below 40% approval rating in numerous national and statewide polling. Voters continue to lose faith in how both Democrats and Republicans govern. When asked why people belong to a certain party, the negative views of the opposing party are often given. In other words, “I’m a Democrat because I can’t stand the "Republicans” and visa versa.
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