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1 day ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
A bill to largely ban speed cameras across the state – well, most of it, at least – is on Gov. Landry’s desk. Sen. Stewart Cathey (R-Monroe) says he’s happy that he got Senate Bill 99 across the finish line. “As my dear friend in the House Representative Chuck Owen said, this is taxation by citation,” says Cathey. “And so this practice will be outlawed here in the state of Louisiana.”There have been efforts in the past to ban speed cameras in the state.
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1 day ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee met with President Trump this week to find common ground on his Big, Beautiful Bill. Among them was Bill Cassidy, who says the two-hour meeting was very productive. Like other senators, Cassidy says the bill as passed by the House will not pass in the Senate without some changes. “There’s just some things that the House throws in there that by the Senate rules we can’t vote on,” says Sen. Cassidy. “That irritates the House, but that’s just the rules.
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2 days ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
Looking for something to do this weekend? How about going fishing!This is the weekend to do it – it’s free fishing weekend June 7-8. “Nobody needs a fishing license,” says Rene LeBreton with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. “Go out, fish, have fun, bring some family members, bring some friends and introduce them to the sport of fishing.”Every state has a free fishing weekend, although not necessarily the same weekend.
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2 days ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
A sweeping bill calling for a series of nutrition reforms is on the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 14, authored by Sen. Patrick McMath (R-Covington), unanimously passed both houses of legislature. Major components include banning certain artificial colors and additives in meals served in schools, and forcing food companies to put QR codes on packaging if their products contain certain artificial ingredients. McMath says they’re part of the nationwide Make America Healthy Again movement.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
59 games, 59 wins!Not only did the LSU-Shreveport Pilots baseball team win the school’s first national championship in any sport, but they became the first team at any level of college baseball — four-year or two-year — to go through an entire season undefeated. The Pilots completed their unblemished campaign Friday night with a 13-7 win over Southeastern University (Lakeland, Fla.) in the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
It’s been a year since the legislature passed a sweeping series of laws that took on the rising cost of property insurance. Are homeowners feeling the effects of it yet? Ben Albright, the president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana, says it might be a little while longer before property insurance premiums turn the corner and start going down.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
A disturbing discovery in Shreveport, as a deceased infant’s body was found mixed in with linens at a cleaning facility. The ALSCO Uniforms employee who discovered the body initially believed it to be a doll, and the company was able to determine that the body came from a funeral home in Dallas. Shreveport Police Cpl. Christopher Bordelon says investigators are looking into how the baby’s body ended up in Shreveport. “The child was deceased on May 3rd, the same day that it was born,” says Cpl.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
We’re about to enter the home stretch of the legislative session, so the push is on for lawmakers to get their last-minute bills onto Gov. Landry’s desk. The dominant issue in this session has been auto insurance reform, and a handful of bills have made it onto Landry’s desk. On Wednesday, Landry signed six of them in a ceremony in the governor’s mansion. Landry said the goal of these bills is to rein in runaway insurance premiums and insurance companies’ profits.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
The Alliance for Affordable Energy is urging the state and utility regulators to take steps to prevent another massive outage like the one New Orleans experienced Sunday night. The alliance’s clean grid manager, Yvonne Cappel-Vickery, says the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) should not be the ones to blame; one factor behind the outage was poor transmission planning among the utilities. “In Mississippi on Sunday afternoon, power was selling at negative rates,” says Cappel-Vickery.
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1 week ago | 
louisianaradionetwork.com | Andrew Greenstein
A ban on kratom in Louisiana is now one signature from Gov. Landry from becoming law. The House has followed the Senate’s lead in overwhelmingly voting to ban the supplement sometimes known as “gas station heroin.”The House vote on the bill by Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, was 86-6. Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, presented the bill in the House; she said kratom is cloaked in deception.
