The Advocate covers a press club luncheon at which Louisiana transportation department chief Shawn Wilson offered an insight into his (and the state’s) budget problem: “[O]n Sunday,” he said, “he got calls from two state lawmakers asking for projects, and both had supported a resolution that would result in a $20 million cut in the fund used for road and bridge improvements. ‘There is an appetite for projects. . . . There is not an appetite to pay for it,’ [Wilson told the audience].”
