budget crisis

The lack of funds could keep Basile officers off the streets until July the first.

The majority of projects cut from the budget just happen to be in the districts of some of his biggest detractors.

State funding issues could affect the jobs of thousands of healthcare workers in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.

The most we could have gotten is $176 million. We budgeted for $140 million. We're getting $82 million. That's why we're broke.

This might be the best way to get real input from real Louisiana residents about our looming budget shortfall.

You know the budget crisis is pretty severe when parish jails are "going out of business".

A bipartisan gathering of lawmakers will take place in Baton Rouge today. You and I are not invited.

Here are five outrageous ways that Louisiana could spend the budget surplus money. They make more sense than what the legislature is proposing.

The idea of placing a bigger tax burden on Louisiana business owners and operators has been rejected.

Here's your chance to sound off and offer real people solutions for Louisiana's budget issues.

Legislators continue to try and find ways to fund TOPS for Louisiana's deserving students. This probably isn't one of those ways.

If you give the government the right to get money as a result of people’s interaction with the internet, the government will never stop, and they’ll kill the internet sooner or later.

Is raising taxes or reducing spending the answer to Louisiana's budget woes? A lot of political careers hang in the balance. Will legislators will choose to spend less of our money or ask for more of our money?

LSU President F. King Alexander when before the House Appropriations Committee yesterday to voice his concerns over a proposed 16th budget cut for higher education.

Halfway through the film tax credit cap restriction period, Louisiana's film industry fights to hang on.

$313 million and growing, that's the current state of Louisiana's budget deficit. Education and healthcare are again facing the budget chopping block.

It's no surprise that Louisiana will wind up in the red when it comes to the finances of the last fiscal year. The better question is "what can we do going forward"?

Things aren't looking so bright for Louisiana families that were hoping for tax credits to install solar energy systems.

What can parents and students expect once the fall college semester begins? Trust me, it gets worse in the spring.

The Governor wants the legislature to stay at it until the budget problems are solved.