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Gov. John Bel Edwards scoffed at lawmaker’s efforts to reign in his spending powers and killed a handful of pet projects in conservative legislators’ districts in a dozen vetoes to Louisiana’s budget blueprint Wednesday night.
The Democratic governor nixed nearly $1.8 million in local projects. That included a $400,000 appropriation for a utility substation in Erath, home of Rep. Blake Miguez, the House Republican majority leader. Edwards earlier this week vetoed legislation from Miguez that would have forbidden private contributions from defraying election costs.

“My proudest moment as a student was receiving both the Vermilion Parish School Board Scholarship for Education majors and the Louisiana Governor’s Scholarship for Education Majors,” said now-retired teacher Jessica Riebel as she recalled one of her proudest moments as a student.
As it cannot be narrowed down to one singular event, Reibel said what makes her proudest as a teacher is that she felt privileged to have taught in her hometown of Kaplan. “It was an enormous responsibility that I never took lightly,” she said.

The disturbance in the southern Gulf of Mexico has been given a 90% chance of development into a tropical cyclone by the National Hurricane Center, but it is expected to be dominated by heavy rains and some windy conditions, the National Weather Service’s Lake Charles office reported in the last 24 hours.
During a weather briefing Tuesday afternoon, meteorologist Donald Jones said the system in the Bay of Campeche wasn’t supposed to become better developed until around Thursday or Friday, noting beforehand, it may move into Mexico before moving back into the Gulf of Mexico.