2018 Legislative Session, Week 4
Louisiana: The State We're In
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Newsmagazine
Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2018-04-06
Duration: 00:10:53
Subjects: Politics | Government | Louisiana Legislative Session, 2018 | STATE BUDGET | Gambling | Criminal justice, Administration of | Journalists | Louisiana. Legislature
Contributors:
- Moreau, Andre Host
- Spires, Kelly Reporter
- Deslatte, Melinda Panelist
- Crisp, Elizabeth Panelist
- Frey, Kevin Panelist
Description
This segment from the April 6, 2018, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Andre Moreau and Kelly Spires leading a roundtable discussion with three capitol reporters on the first four weeks of the 2018 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature: Melinda Deslatte of the Associated Press; Elizabeth Crisp of the Advocate newspaper; and Kevin Frey of WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge. They discuss: the ongoing hearings on the state budget; the gambling bills under consideration; the bills scaling back the criminal justice reforms passed in 2017; the unanimous jury bill; and the possibility that the legislators will end the Regular Session early in order to go into a Special Session to fix the state budget deficit.