A federal judge is set to hear Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against Governor Bobby Jindal over his decision to cut their Medicaid payments at clinics in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The DOJ says they haven’t seen “sufficient reasons” to keep Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast from receiving funding. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat doesn’t think governors can just pull out of federal programs like this…

cut 5 (12) “depend on”

In a statement, Planned Parenthood says Jindal’s decision will jeopardize health care for low-income, uninsured women and men.

A super pac supporting Senator David Vitter has released the first negative commercial in Louisiana’s governor’s race. ULM political science professor Joshua Stockley figured the race would get more heated around the Labor Day holiday…

cut 8 (07) “much longer”

The TV ad criticizes Vitter’s Republican opponents, Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne, for supporting tax increases.

The Head Health Network is partnering with the LSU football team to study how impacts to the head effect players. H-H-N President Curtis Cruz says science is just now coming to terms with what is significant as far as a critical threshold and accumulation of smaller hits…

cut 14 (11) “good decision”

The study will equip 24 players’ helmets with sensors to monitor impacts.

According to RoadSnacks-dot-com, Shreveport is the “Most Redneck City in Louisiana”. Rounding out the top five are Westwego, Mandeville, Slidell and Cut Off respectively. RoadSnacks co-founder Nick James says they started with the dictionary definition of redneck…

cut 10 (10) “shop at Wal Mart”

The article says the list is an opinion based on facts and is meant as “info-tainment.”