A repeat honor for one of Southern University’s programs. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Julia Letlow’s Senate campaign publishes a poll showing her in the lead in the Senate Republican Primary. Joe Gallinaro has the story…
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For the second year in a row, Southern University’s college of nursing is rated as the nation’s best by Nurse.org. Sandra Brown, the dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health, says nursing has been a part of Southern’s campus culture for more than 40 years.
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Brown says one thing that’s been very beneficial to Southern’s nursing program has been the community partnerships.
Brown says in the end, with Southern’s nursing students getting the best education and training in the nation, it’s the greater Baton Rouge area that ultimately wins.
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Southern University produces the largest number of Black nurses in the state and the third most in the country.
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Old Man Winter has some parting gifts for Louisiana in the waning days of winter, and some cities set new records. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says one city in far southwest Louisiana set a new record for the lowest temperature ever recorded on St. Patrick’s Day.
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Moving further north, Keim says a couple cities got to the freezing mark and below.
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Throughout the state, it’s going to be a very chilly St. Patrick’s Day, with many cities approaching record territory for the lowest maximum temperature on this date – including New Orleans.
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Congresswoman Julia Letlow releases a poll that shows her leading the U-S Senate Republican primary. The survey shows her leading incumbent Bill Cassidy by one percent and John Fleming by eight percent. Pearson Cross teaches political science at ULM and says Letlow paid for the poll, but the results probably reflect the view of primary voters…
The two-day survey was conducted last week by Fabrizio, Lee and Associates. It has Letlow at 27-percent, Cassidy at 26-percent, Fleming at 19-percent and 28-percent are undecided. Cross says Fleming is hoping to get the support of those undecided voters…
The Senate Republican Primary is May 16th. Cross expects a battle all the way to the end…
The Letlow poll shows that once respondents are informed that President Trump endorsed Letlow, her lead over Cassidy increases to 29-percent and 34-percent over Fleming. The survey of 600 likely republican primary voters shows Letlow leads Cassidy by 12 points in a head-to-head runoff matchup.