Capitol Views: Louisiana House committee approves budget changes, sets stage for political brawl

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In a dramatic shift away from the Edwards administration’s priorities, the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee advanced a state budget today that gives the attorney general autonomous spending control, eliminates the office of inspector general, reverses cuts to a free college tuition program and reallocates funding reductions for safety-net hospitals. In recent history at least, the

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