Category Archives: Politics & Government
Gov: Obamacare court case could impact hundreds of thousands of Louisianans
Governor John Bel Edwards says a Texas judge's decision to declare the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional could lead to the loss of health insurance for 480,000 recipients of the Medicaid exp...
Dec 18, 2018
Obamacare court case headed to New Orleans
A key Obamacare court case is likely headed to the New Orleans based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals after a Texas judge struck down the entire law on the basis that the individual mandate penalty was...
Dec 17, 2018
Louisiana officials react to ruling that Obamacare is "unconstitutional"
A federal judge in Texas rules that Obamacare is unconstitutional. Judge Reed O' Conner says when Congress eliminated the penalty for not having coverage, it knocked the constitutional foundation from...
Dec 15, 2018 Fibonacci Blue / CC
Richmond backs half trillion dollar housing bill
Congressman Cedric Richmond is introducing a half trillion dollar bill that would build an estimated 2.1 million new, affordable homes in America, and subsidize the purchase of existing houses. Housin...
Dec 14, 2018
A state board votes to give proposed LNG facility a massive tax break
The state Board of Commerce and Industry agrees to give a developer planning to build a massive liquefied natural gas export facility in Calcasieu Parish a tax break that could eventually reach two-bi...
Dec 14, 2018
Former Rep. Charles Boustany calls for immediate end to Chinese trade war
Former Congressman Charles Boustany says the trade war with China is failing, and Louisiana taxpayers have paid so far an additional 85-million dollars in additional tariffs, 19-million dollars in Oct...
Dec 14, 2018
