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Louisiana might lower its severance tax for oil production if lawmakers follow suggestions from Gov. Jeff Landry’s transition councils — and recent history from the state’s new speaker of the

Louisiana might lower its severance tax for oil production if lawmakers follow suggestions from Gov. Jeff Landry’s transition councils — and recent history from the state’s new speaker of the

This guest editorial was written by the Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board, a Forum Communications Co. newspaper.

From the editorial: About "$400 million a year from taxpayers (are) being invested, ... a part of Gov. Tim Walz’s 'mission to make Minnesota the best state in the country for kids to grow up'."

June was the first month of eligibility reviews for Missouri's roughly 1.5 million Medicaid enrollees. Children accounted for half of all the state's Medicaid terminations, mostly for procedural reasons.

More than 32,000 Missourians — half of them children — lost Medicaid coverage in June during Missouri’s first round of eligibility checks after the COVID-19 public health emergency.

More than 32,000 Missourians -- half of them children -- lost Medicaid coverage in June during Missouris first round of eligibility checks after the COVID public health emergency.

Missouri kicked more than 32,000 people off the rolls in June, with children accounting for half of that number and two-thirds of those children disenrolled for procedural reasons.

Yesterday, the Louisiana Senate voted to bust the state's spending caps and spend our surplus money on the equivalent of hookers and blow.

An Advocate Sunday puff piece aside, Senate President Page Cortez' efforts to drop Louisiana's surplus out of helicopters aren't good policy.