2016 Legislative Session
June 24, 2016
By Jan Moller
The three sessions that comprised the 2016 Louisiana Legislature should be remembered as much for what was accomplished as what wasn’t. While elected officials raised enough revenue to avoid the most serious cuts, they left major holes in the budget that will impact students from kindergarten through college and sets back the state’s efforts to reform its criminal justice system.… Read more...
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