The public's first view of the latest Louisiana budget has been delayed one more day, as more controversy surrounds the alleged $500 million tax increase mentioned by Governor Bobby Jindal at a press conference earlier this week.

Bobby Jindal's voucher-based education policy felt the heat of the state's judges Tuesday, as the Louisiana Supreme Court declared it a violation of the state Constitution to give public money to private and parochial schools. By a vote of 6-1, the Court opted to agree with a District Court judge who also ruled against Jindal's 2012 rewrite of Act 2, which creates a system that allows public school students to leave for private schools without losing state funding.

More of BP's millions are headed to the Louisiana's imperiled Gulf Coast. Today, Governor Bobby Jindal and key politicians of local and state government announced that BP had agreed to an additional $340 million in projects for Louisiana's Gulf Coast region, projects that the Governor promised would help restore critical coastal infrastructure necessary for storm protection and restoring land and wildlife to the region.

With his tax axe plan parked, Bobby Jindal had a few minutes to get out of the car in New Orleans and chat with NBC's Hoda Kotb on Friday. The one-time WWL-TV anchor and current Today Show host was in town for NBC's Education Nation, a summit on school systems that's traveling around the country. After parrying questions about his future and the income tax proposal, Jindal weighed in on vouchers and creationism in Louisiana schools.

Bobby Jindal’s address to open the legislative session yesterday made many believe the Gov. had put his tax axe back in the shed, but LA Democratic Party leaders aren't jumping on Bobby's bandwagon. While the Gov. ditched his initial proposal to eliminate state income tax by raising sales tax, legislators on the other side of the aisle are questioning his sincerity and calling Democratic lawmakers to action. 

Bobby Jindal's tax axe continues to reveal new subtleties, perhaps indicating that it's still being forged. While campaigning for the governor's proposal to do away with state income tax this week, one of the key advocates preaching the virtues of the plan admitted that the increase to sales tax would be more than the administration previously thought.

The head of the state department overseeing Louisiana's publicly-run hospitals and other health concerns resigned on Friday. Bruce Greenstein's run as Secretary of Health and Hospitals will end May 1, according to a statement from Gov. Bobby Jindal's office. Greenstein's bow-out follows the state's move to cancel a Medicaid contract that came under federal investigation.

Despite geting attention from Bobby Jindal last week, the eight-month-old Assumption Parish sinkhole is getting to the age where it can't be left alone for long. The massive slurry area near Bayou Corne was shaking with hunger for more land this week. Instead of just trees and land, the sinkhole also swallowed the access ramp to the disaster area.

Nearly nine months after the Assumption Parish sinkhole appeared near Bayou Corne, Gov. Bobby Jindal visited the site of the slurry mess and displaced residents on Tuesday. During the appearance, the gov reiterated points that he made last week about buyouts for residents, and planning in case a second nearby cavern starts to give way. But it seems rolling up his sleeves back home in the bayous of Louisiana may have also made the governor nostalgic. As Jindal told it at an afternoon press conference, the Sinkhole Saga suddenly started to have hints of the Big Oozy.