Capitol Access

They met in side-by side rooms at the Capitol: one task force beginning its work –

“I would like to welcome you to the Restore Louisiana Task Force – our first meeting,” said Erin Monroe-Wesley.

And the other – the Tax Structure Task Force – was preparing the language for its final report.

The previous fiscal year ended July 1st, but we still don’t know how deeply in the hole the state ended up.

State Education Superintendent John White, the oft-embattled head of Louisiana K-12 education, is walking a less controversial path these days.

“We cannot return to a time when K-12 education and the tools teachers use in the classroom are the subjects of daily political headlines,” White told the Baton Rouge Press Club Monday.

After a one month reprieve due to the flooding, the Tax Structure Task Force is preparing the draft of their report -- now due October first.  

As police and community relations in Charlotte, North Carolina, are rocked by a questioned shooting, a Louisiana task force began work on recommendations governing law enforcement body cameras. They started out questioning dependability.