At the state level, there is much talk about the need for a convention to address a Louisiana constitution last overhauled in the mid-1970s. It is needed, writes Business Report Publisher Rofe McCollister in his new column, given we have amended it almost 200 times since then and much has changed in our state and world over the past 40-plus years.
The same can be said for our city-parish government, he continues, and a committee appointed by the Metro Council is currently reviewing our plan of government.
The committee must submit its recommendations to the council before July in order to have suggested changes approved in time to make the fall ballot, where citizens get their say.
There could be important changes presented to voters regarding our plan of government and we should have the final say—not the committee or the Metro Council, who may be more interested in protecting their own job or power, McCollister writes.
Also in his column, McCollister writes that he was glad to see a House committee kill the bill on that would have placed a moratorium on new billboards by a 14-3 vote. This bogus bill, he writes, pushed by the state’s trucking industry and introduced by Rep. Jack McFarland, was supposedly about reducing driver distractions and accidents.
McCollister also discusses a case in Texas where the San Antonio City Council voted to not allow a Chick-Fil-A in its airport and congratulates The Advocate on their recent Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
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