Author Archives: Jeff Palermo
Auto insurance rates up in 2021 despite 2020 tort reform law that promised lower rates
In 2020, when lawmakers approved legislation that changed how the courts would handle lawsuits involving car accidents, supporters said it would lead to lower auto insurance rates. But Insurance Commi...
Nov 16, 2021 Jeffrey Schwartz / CC
Louisiana House Speaker Disappointed At Failure Of Constitutional Amendment One
Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is reacting to the voter rejection of Amendment 1 on Saturday that would have set the wheels in motion for the state to have a centralized tax collection syste...
Nov 16, 2021 Speaker of the House Clay Schexnayder
Amendment Two passes new state tax brackets. What's next?
Voters statewide approved Constitutional Amendment Two, which will lower state income tax brackets, cap the highest brackets and remove the deduction for federal income taxes paid. With that done, wha...
Nov 16, 2021
LSU Health Shreveport helping vaccinate children at participating schools in north Louisiana
LSU-Health Shreveport is helping parents by making it as convenient as possible to have children ages five to eleven get vaccinated at schools in north Louisiana. Hospital K-12 Engagement Coordinator ...
Nov 16, 2021 CDC / Unsplash
Louisiana Whitetail Deer To Be Tested For COVID-19
Louisiana is beginning to test whitetail deer for the presence of COVID-19 after the same animals tested positive for the virus in Iowa. LDWF Deer Program Manager Jonathan Bordelon says that "while te...
Nov 15, 2021 BobMacInnes / CC
An audit of LWC find $2.9 million in possibly unlawful unemployment payments
An audit of the Louisiana Workforce Commission finds the agency made $2.9 million in payments that potentially violated both state and federal unemployment rules. Brent McDougall, Senior Analyst with ...
Nov 15, 2021
Former New Orleans Mayor and Louisiana Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu tapped to oversee implementation of infrastructure bill
Former New Orleans Mayor and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu will serve as President Biden's senior advisor on the implementation of the infrastructure bill that's being signed into law today. UNO Politic...
Nov 15, 2021
DOTD Sec Shawn Wilson attends historic infrastructure bill signing
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson is in the nation's capital for the President's signing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Wilson said it's goin...
Nov 15, 2021 DOTD Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson
Louisiana voters reject three of the four constitutional amendments on the November 13th ballot
Three of the four constitutional amendments on Saturday's ballot failed, including Amendment One supported by business groups and legislative leaders. Proponents say it would streamline tax collection...
Nov 14, 2021 Will / CC
A posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy has been approved by the Louisiana Pardon Board
Governor John Bel Edwards will be next to act on the Louisiana Pardon Board's unanimous recommendation to posthumously pardon the late Homer Plessy. The man known as a 19th-century civil rights pionee...
Nov 13, 2021
