There are concerns that the potential damage Florida could receive from Hurricane Matthew could interfere with the federal disaster aid coming to Louisiana. But U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy doesn’t think so…:
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Congress is expected to return in December to discuss more financial flood relief for Louisiana and what will need to be done to help those impacted by Hurricane Matthew. Louisiana has already received 500 million dollars in federal disaster aid and Governor Edwards has asked for 2.8 billion.

The President has declared an emergency in the state of Florida. And an official announcement about the fate of the LSU/Florida game is slated to be made at 2pm this afternoon and it’s reported that the SEC has now taken over and will ultimately decide when and where the contest will take place. The University of Florida had said Wednesday that it was not going to move the game from Gainesville.

Northwestern State University President Dr. Jim Henderson will become the new president of the University of Louisiana System, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed him to the position. Henderson says he’ll look to reverse the 10 year decline in state funding of higher ed.:
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He says he looks forward to working with the legislature to resolve many of the issues universities and students are facing.

A day after angry residents in Jefferson Parish gathered to voice their concerns over reports that Parish President Mike Yenni was involved with teenage boys, Yenni announced today that he’d been deployed to Florida to assist with hurricane response. He announced an acting parish president in a recorded memo. Prior to this announcement, Yenni was expected address the allegations involving a 17-year-old boy before the end of the week.