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House panel advances education savings account bill, despite cost concerns
The Louisiana GATOR Scholarship program passed the House Appropriations Committee in a 13-8 vote Tuesday despite concerns over cost and implementation.
The Louisiana GATOR Scholarship program passed the House Appropriations Committee in a 13-8 vote Tuesday despite concerns over cost and implementation.
Louisiana’s perennially poor health rankings can be blamed on poverty, childhood trauma and a lack of investment in women’s health, according to a report for the LA40by30 initiative.
The Landry administration decided not to participate in the program, which last year brought $66.5 million in federal funds to Louisiana to feed poor children.
Louisiana’s redrawn congressional map positions Lafayette to have two representatives in Congress, potentially a Republican and a Democrat.
It’s time for Louisiana to stop building urban highways, investing in transportation infrastructure that makes our cities poorer.
The bill would switch Louisiana to a closed system in which candidates of the same party face off in their own partisan primary election.
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