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February 8, 2017
February 8, 2017
Feb. 8: A battle over stop-gap funding
Gov. John Bel Edwards came to office promising to end the age-old practice of using one-time, stopgap funding to pay for recurring government expenses, which grew to epidemic proportions under his predecessor.