Area legislators hope Gov. John Bel Edwards will call for a special session after Mardi Gras and before the regular session to address the $1 billion fiscal cliff for the 2018-19 fiscal year when temporary taxes expire. Those temporary taxes included a 1-cent sales tax increase put in place in 2016. The 2018 regular session is slated to begin March 12. State government’s fiscal year begins July 1. Edwards has yet to make an official announcement as to whether he’ll call for a special session before the regular session. “I think this whole issue would be better addressed before the ...