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BATON ROUGE — Legislation that would reduce by 10 percent nearly all of the state's professional, personal and consulting service contracts was approved Monday by the House.
For Rep. Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent, the 86-0 vote marked the third time he has passed the measure through the House in so many years, although the concept has never been enacted as state law.
Houma-Thibodaux area representatives present and voting on the measure were Truck Gisclair, D-Larose; Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville; Richard; and Lenar Whitney, R-Houma. Recorded as absent was Gordon Dove, R-Houma.
Richard said the across-the-board cuts for most contracts, but not all, would help the state address a $1.3 billion revenue shortfall in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
While his House Bill 73 has once again found favor
...BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge Metro Airport will give a standard incentive package to Elite Airways when the company begins flying out of the market in July.
Jim Caldwell, an airport spokesman, tells The Advocate ( http://bit.ly/11Up4N6 ) Elite Airways will get a 2-year waiver on landing fees and rent. Metro Airport will also help support advertising for the startup airline and could put up as much as $100,000 a year for two years.
Even though Metro Airport won't collect landing fees or rent, Caldwell says the airport will see a financial benefit from Elite's entry into the market.
Elite Airways, based in Portland, Maine, will make a formal announcement in mid-June on destinations out of Baton Rouge. The company has operated since 2006 as a charter service.
Information from: The Advocate, http://theadvocate.com
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...BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge Metro Airport will give a standard incentive package to Elite Airways when the company begins flying out of the market in July.
Jim Caldwell, an airport spokesman, tells The Advocate ( http://bit.ly/11Up4N6 ) Elite Airways will get a 2-year waiver on landing fees and rent. Metro Airport will also help support advertising for the startup airline and could put up as much as $100,000 a year for two years.
Even though Metro Airport won't collect landing fees or rent, Caldwell says the airport will see a financial benefit from Elite's entry into the market.
Elite Airways, based in Portland, Maine, will make a formal announcement in mid-June on destinations out of Baton Rouge. The company has operated since 2006 as a charter service.
Information from: The Advocate, http://theadvocate.com
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,
...BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge Metro Airport will give a standard incentive package to Elite Airways when the company begins flying out of the market in July.
...BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Lawyers say St. Tammany Parish Coroner Peter Galvan has agreed to give nearly 80,000 emails to the state legislative auditor by Friday morning, and to have a judge decide whether another 2,000 should be turned over.
State attorney Jenifer Schaye and Billy Gibbens, representing the coroner, told state District Judge William Morvant about the agreement Monday. The agreement averted a contempt hearing scheduled in Baton Rouge.
Schaye represents Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera, who is investigating reports about lavish spending and inflated salaries. Purpera went to court when Galvan refused to comply with a legislative subpoena for emails from Galvan and five top staffers.
Gibbens told the judge some of the 2,000 emails he will see are protected by attorney-client privilege and others by the health privacy law.
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...BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A dozen Tibetan monks are in Baton Rouge. They're spending five days creating an intricate artwork from colored sand, only to destroy it.
The Advocate ( http://bit.ly/14qwmWf ) reports that when the abbot of the Tam Bao Temple learned the monks were coming to New Orleans with the Dalai Lama, he invited them to visit Baton Rouge afterward.
Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery also made and destroyed a sand mandala in New Orleans.
They arrived in Baton Rouge on Monday.
Baton Rouge Abbot Thich Dao Quang says the mandalas take more than 30 hours to make, using narrow metal funnels to create lines and circles of sand. The one they're making now will be swept up Friday evening.
Quang says that teaches a central lesson of Buddhism: Life is beautiful, but impermanent.
Information from: The Advocate, http://theadvocate.com
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...A dozen Tibetan monks are in Baton Rouge. They're spending five days creating an intricate artwork from colored sand, only to destroy it.
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BATON ROUGE- The subpoena that started the legal battle between the State Legislative Auditor's Office and the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office requests emails written by and/or between five top executives at the coroner's office, and the coroner himself, Dr. Peter Galvan.
The documents are part of an investigation into questionable spending and operating practices by Galvan. The FBI and State Attorney General are also probing the office, while a group of citizens is trying to recall Galvan. They say it's a shame the auditor had to go to court to get the information.
Carl Ernst said, "It's a delay tactic and it's cost us even
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal has ordered a review of permits issued to Texas Brine, the operator of a collapsed salt dome in Assumption Parish that authorities say caused a 15-acre sinkhole.
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