Livonia News

When I saw the Monday Advocate headline "Snakes found in State Capitol," my first thought was to resist making any snarky comment about it - it was just TOO easy, like shooting snakes in a barrel.

The City Council on Tuesday night approved a resolution asking the Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury to overturn a resolution it recently adopted seeking to raise the amount of taxes New Roads residents pay for street and road improvements.

By John Maginnis & Jeremy Alford LaPolitics.com BATON ROUGE - A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was temporarily deferred amid concerns that Gov.