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LETTER: Louisiana’s future demands 21st century approach to transportation
It’s time for Louisiana to stop building urban highways, investing in transportation infrastructure that makes our cities poorer.
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.
State officials want to divert the Louisiana Watershed Initiative’s third and final round of local project funding, potentially bypassing communities waiting to apply.
Lafayette Parish government scrapped plans to increase the public health unit’s tax rate, complicating the service’s efforts to fill nursing vacancies.
More parents are opting out of school vaccination schedules for common childhood illnesses. Rates among Louisiana kindergartners fell below the threshold for herd immunity against measles.
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