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Louisiana Senateâs $37B budget plan largely in line with House version
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Louisiana state senators Monday unveiled their version of a $37 billion state operating budget that includes millions of dollars in new spending on education programs, pay raises and legislative pet projects.
The Senate’s proposed spending blueprint for the financial year that begins July 1âpieced together and approved by the Senate Finance Committeeâlargely remains in line with the budget plan passed weeks earlier by the House. But since the House approved its spending recommendations, Louisiana’s income forecast brightened, giving senators hundreds of millions of dollars more to plug into the package of spending bills.
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Memorial Day will have the usual observances this year. The ceremony at the Tombs of the Unknowns, the TV shots of Arlington National Cemetery with the graves decorated with flowers or small flags as tribute to the fallen. For unlike Veterans Day in November, Memorial Day remembers the dead those who served their country and, in too many cases, died in one of the many battles found in history books.
Some 16 million men and women left their jobs in the local drug store or the neighborhood garage, at a desk in an insurance company or the blackboard in a high school, on the farm or in a factory or kitchen, to go off to war, to save their country … and the world.