PAR says legislative session short on ideas

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has come out with its analysis of the recently concluded legislative session. PAR says it was a short session—short on ideas—that failed to meaningfully reform the budget. The group says legislators failed to show leadership to make tough decisions on the budget. “It seems that the state’s budget woes were not severe enough this year to force into being the kind of transformational proposals that will be necessary to either cut services or grow revenue to achieve a conservatively balanced budget in the tight years ahead,” PAR says. Read the full report here.