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A pair of politicians seeking a Metro Council seat in southeastern Baton Rouge have turned to the humblest of campaign materials to push their message across, though they’re using different styles of postcards as Election Day approaches. Hitting each of the 21,744 registered voters in District 8 would cost less than $8,000. Each bears a Baton Rouge postmark. Csaposs is benefiting from the work of postcardstovoters.org, a Georgia-based group of volunteers that backs Democrats by mailing postcards to like-minded voters in the days leading to an election. It has done similar work for candidates in other states. Nathan Kalmoe, a political science professor at LSU, says obtaining help from nonlocals is an established tradition in politics. Kalmoe said that, when out-of-towners go beyond data and start telling people how to vote in their own elections, they risk backfire. Of 98 people who have contributed to his campaign, only 21 were from Louisiana. Her campaign material notes that she was married to Buddy Amoroso for 37 years. Her postcards do not mention that she is a Republican, though they call her “conservative, pro-business and pro-family.” Amoroso is pursuing a more traditional campaign strategy, with billboards and yard signs.

On Monday, Secretary of Health Dr. Rebekah Gee announced the state had finally done away with the waiting list for services for developmentally disabled people and ensured that every eligible person who was in line asking for help from the state had received some form of assistance. "At one point we had 16,000 families on our wait list," Gee said. "We wanted to come up with something that was better than that. More sand was moved than the state's previous record, the Caminada Headland restoration, which spread 8.8 million cubic yards across 13 miles of coast, from Port Fourchon to Elmer's Island. Whiskey Island's restoration, which is set to wrap up in early fall, amounts to only a fraction of the money and sand Louisiana is pouring into the rescue of its chain of barrier islands. Story by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. Tennessee, with its 9.46 percent average rate, has beaten out Louisiana, with a 9.45 percentage average rate, as the state with the highest sales taxes according to The Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Story by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. John Bel Edward’s announcement that the state’s criminal justice reform package passed in 2017 has saved more than $12 million. Three Louisiana State Police troopers disciplined last year for taking a lavish "side trip" to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon while driving to a law enforcement conference in California offered their first public remarks on the controversy during their appeal Monday before the State Police Commission. The 1954 Thibodaux High School graduate served as a Louisiana state legislator from 1980-88, Lafourche Parish School Board member from 1970-80 and state director of special education.