Jindal Administration

A letter was mailed Wednesday by Louisiana Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein of the Jindal administration telling federal officials that Louisiana will leave it to the federal government to run the state's health insurance exchange.

After working out their differences behind closed doors, the state House approved a 25-billion dollar budget for next fiscal year.

The Jindal Administration says they will be forced to close five state prisons as a result of the cutting of their budget by the House Appropriations Committee.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Jindal administration is opting out of creating the state insurance exchanges included in the new federal health overhaul, instead deciding the federal government should administer them.

The longest serving member of the Louisiana Board of Regents, Roland Toups, has voluntary resigned amid pressure from the Jindal administration to make the board more diverse.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Some of the state's major private pediatric clinics are opposing the Jindal administration's reworking of a Medicaid program for children.

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has issued an emergency order barring a half-dozen dangerous new drugs sold as phony bath salts or plant food, with penalties equivalent to those for heroin.

The Jindal Administration fires back at a federal oil spill report that sand berms--built between barrier islands to stop oil from reaching shore--a huge waste of money.

Senators on the budget and health care committees said Friday that the reductions to the rates paid for Medicaid patient care were too deep and harmful to services on which the poor and elderly rely. The cuts had started Dec. 1. A spokesman for Gov...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state Civil Service Commission has refused to approve part of a Jindal administration employee layoff plan because of how decisions would have been made on which employees would lose jobs.