Higher Education Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed tells lawmakers that state funding for universities and colleges is not where it needs to be. Reed says regional institutions in particular are struggling. She’s calling on legislators to provide at least an additional 119-million dollars in state funding for higher ed…
Reed says higher ed is 869-million dollars short of being fully funded. And that’s despite the closure of hundreds of programs. She says there are several reasons why regional schools are struggling, inflation and enrollment dips can throw off their budgets.
A bill that would have made it a crime to aggressively throw an object from a parade float to cause an injury has been withdrawn. LaPlace Representative Sylvia Taylor had filed the bill in the wake of several incidents in which people aboard floats aggressively threw beads and other objects at people along the route.
The May 16th primary is about two months away, and Secretary of State Nancy Landry is urging voters to check their party affiliation on their voter registrations. Only registered Republican voters or no-party voters can vote in the Republican primary, and only registered Democrats or no-party voters can vote in the Democratic Primary….
Cut 7 (10) “…affiliated with.”
Landry says no party voters can declare on the day they vote, if they want to vote in the Republican Primary or the Democratic Primary…