Senator Bill Cassidy continues to hammer Congresswoman Julia Letlow in the Republican Senate primary for previously supporting DEI policies. In videos from 2020 when Letlow was seeking to be the president at ULM, she told the search committee she was committed to a more diverse faculty. Cassidy also claims Letlow wanted to open the school’s first DEI division.
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In a statement released by her campaign, Letlow says DEI was presented in higher education as a way to encourage people to achieve the American dream, but now she sees it as a policy that divides people, push indoctrination and holds people down instead of lifting them up.
The other major candidate in the race, State Treasurer John Fleming is facing attacks. The ads claim Fleming is not conservative enough, even though he created the conservative Freedom Caucus when he was in the U-S House.
Monday was a special day for high school basketball star Caroline Bradley. The six-foot-five center from Oak Grove committed to the LSU Lady Tigers. Bradley says she’s ecstatic to play for her home state, one of the biggest brands in college athletics…
Bradley is ranked as the nation’s third best player in the 2027 recruiting class.
It’s a new day in Melville as the St. Landry Parish community is overhauling its 60-year-old water system. The city’s outgoing water system was built on deteriorating pipes and a single overworked well, and Mayor Caretta Robertson says it was costing the city lots of money to keep it suitable for consumption.
The project is being supported by a grant of more than four-million dollars from the USDA’s Rural Development Program.