City officials met Thursday morning to try and solve a nagging $15 million problem: How to restore critical health-care money for LSU Interim Hospital cut from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s mid-year budget adjustment.
Tag: state budget cuts
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Cutting coastal cash is perfect complement to Big Oil’s free ride
Belated thanks to Gambit for reprinting a Bloomberg News article on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s unwillingness to hand out big fines to the oil industry. I linked to a summary of the article in my Feb. 24 opinion column, and was pleased to see that Bob Marshall cited the Bloomberg piece in his […]
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Louisiana House District 93: Feel the excitement!
Forget the Saints off-season. Pay no mind to HBO’s “Treme.” Real New Orleanians are spending day and night anticipating the May 1 special election to fill the House District 93 seat in the Louisiana Legislature. That seat, which includes the Central Business District and parts of the French Quarter, Treme, Irish Channel, Garden District, Mid-City, […]