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Governor’s Health Care Reform Panel Web Site Unveiled Posted: 07/20/2004 The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) recently unveiled the Governor’s Health Care Reform Panel Web site. The site outlines the general mission of the Panel as well as provides additional Panel information, including its Preliminary Report, membership, events, media library and recent publications. […]
The Senate should reject a proposal to keep negotiations between the state and business prospects secret. HB 744 would prevent the public from examining Department of Economic Development (DED) records, regarding negotiations with businesses interested in locating or expanding operations in the state, for up to two years. Proponents argue the proposal is needed because […]
The governor should feel no hesitation in vetoing an omnibus bill to provide pay raises for elected officials, if the bill makes it to her desk. This is the wrong way and certainly the wrong time to give a 58% increase in compensation to legislators and major pay raises to statewide elected officials, judges and […]
School Accountability Plan on Collision Course with NCLB, PAR Says Posted: 05/05/2004 A potential collision between slowing student improvement and accelerating achievement goals spells serious problems for school accountability, the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) said in its report “Close-up on Education Accountability” released today. “In addition, new federal rules for improving the performance of […]
A proposed constitutional amendment co-authored by 15 Senators aims to undo a major 1998 reform that created the combined Louisiana Community and Technical College System. This reform created a new board to manage seven community colleges and the 42-campus technical college, which was formerly under the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). The […]
The governor is to be commended for her efforts to begin addressing serious problems in Louisiana’s property tax assessment system. The administration’s proposal to require assessors to post property assessments on the Web and the apparent energizing of the Louisiana Tax Commission to take a more active role in policing assessors’ work are welcome developments. […]
In a 5-4 vote, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee reported favorably a bill that would repeal a hard-won law banning campaign contributions from riverboat gambling interests. Proponents of HB1549 believe that the ban is unfair because other gambling interests are allowed to make contributions. This argument fails to consider a very important fact: state […]
PAR Elects Officers for 2004-2005 Posted: 04/23/2004 George Nelson, Jr., President/CEO of Louisiana Companies, Inc., was re-elected chairman of the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) Board of Directors at the organization’s annual conference in Baton Rouge on Friday, April 23. Before assuming the chairmanship of PAR, Nelson served the organization in a number of volunteer […]