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Baton Rouge Water Co. is in an all-out, multi-layered fight with a state groundwater panel that agency officials now say is freezing hundreds of thousand of dollars in fee revenues

Baton Rouge Water Co. is in an all-out, multi-layered fight with a state groundwater panel that agency officials now say is freezing hundreds of thousand of dollars in fee revenues

The heavily amended bill passed largely along party lines, with four Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and his allies are pressuring state senators to pass his signature education bill, which would give parents public money to pay for private school.

Both bills were advanced without objection

“I don’t know how y’all continue to hear things from us about our pain and our trauma and just still pass bills,” Peyton Rose Michelle said.

Gov. Jeff Landry’s top legislative priorities have hit major snags with just two weeks left in the current annual session, which is set to end June 3.

Together Baton Rouge is voicing its opposition to what they have dubbed a “water grab bill.”

A bill that would create Education Savings Accounts in Louisiana passed out of a Senate committee late last week.

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Senate Finance Committee voted 4-3 Thursday to pass an amended version of the education savings account program backed by Gov. Jeff Landry, slowing down its