Business
Experts: Spend opioid settlement funds on fighting opioids
By BEN FINLEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press As a $26 billion settlement over the toll of opioids ... Read more
Latest state budgets
Crime
Minnesota lawmakers reach deal on policing measures
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s top Democratic and Republican lawmakers reached agreement on the highlights of a ... Read more
Treasury says some state tax cuts OK under Biden relief act
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Responding to concerns from state officials, the ... Read more
Business
States drawing up big wish lists for the COVID relief money
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press State governments will get a big influx of federal money from the $1.9 ... Read more
Edwards says his Louisiana budget proposal free of cuts
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that ... Read more
Opinion
Special session has to do it this time
Louisiana legislators will have another opportunity starting today to permanently fix the state’s perennial budget problems. However, it ... Read more