Banking on donations: If you’ve got an old prom dress or wedding gown that you don’t have any use for, The Cinderella Project—which has distributed about 3,600 prom dresses to students at 84 high schools in 18 parishes across Louisiana since 2008—would like you to donate it at a local Fidelity Bank branch today through Tuesday. The Cinderella Project will give the dresses and gowns to women in Louisiana who cannot afford them. All five local Fidelity branches are accepting donations between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Guidelines and exact location can be found here.
Everybody rise: A New Orleans area lawmaker says he’s sponsoring a proposal to boost judges’ salaries across the state for the next two years in order to get them to the average that’s paid to jurists across the South. Rep. Jeff Arnold, a Democrat, notes on the bill that he sponsored it “by request.” If the measure passes, lawmakers would need to back a separate appropriation to pay for it. The proposal follows the recommendation of the Judicial Compensation Commission. On July 1, trial court judges would receive a 0.9% raise to $138,926; appellate court judges’ salaries would go up 2.6% to $147,441; and Supreme Court justices’ pay would increase 3.8% to $156,470. Salaries would go up another 2.2% a year later. The complete language of House Bill 483 can be found here.
Editor’s note: This story has been changed since its original publication.
