Louisiana daily news roundup Subcribe to Louisiana daily news roundup |
 |
|
|
By Jordan Blum, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
State higher education leaders Thursday were preparing to cut another $85 million from their budgets after receiving word from the Jindal administration.
Read More
|
By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Property insurance companies that leave the state then want to return to cash in on profitable premiums would have to wait five years to re-apply, according to a proposal being considered by some legislators Thursday.
Read More
|
State looks at insurer laws
By Ted Griggs, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Louisiana may need to strengthen a consumer protection law that stops homeowners' insurance companies from canceling policies so that other insurers don't try the same complicated strategy The Hanover Insurance Group is using to shed half its book of business, the Senate Insurance Committee chairman said Thursday.
Read More
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Black Caucus -- La. in 'dire straits'
By Will Sentell, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Leaders of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and others tossed around ideas Thursday on how to cope with state budget problems without unduly harming citizens.
Read More
|
|
State staffers rip pay freeze
By Marsha Shuler, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
The state Civil Service Commission has been flooded with e-mails from rank-and-file state employees angry about a proposed suspension of pay raises.
Read More
|
|
|
|
|
An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
Read More
|
|
GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
Read More
|
|
The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
Read More
|
Powered by