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Saturday, November 21, 2009

LEGISLATURE

Walker Mayor Bobby Font is challenging businesses and neighborhoods to “Deck the Town” for Christmas.


Lawmakers vowed Friday to clear up eligibility problems that are impeding disabled soldiers from getting a $100,000 benefit.


Just defeated for a second term by Edwin Edwards in 1983, then-Gov. Dave Treen didn’t hang up his hat and leave the massive budget problems behind. Soon to be out of office, Treen sat side-by-side with Edwards in a legislative hearing, the pair pushing a proposal to plug the shortfall.


Civil service officials are considering a system that gives individual government managers more of a say on which state workers get pay raises and how much.


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