The East Baton Rouge Flood Risk Reduction Project receives the greenlight on federal dollars needed to complete the $255 million undertaking. Transportation and Drainage Director for EBR Parish Fred Raiford says it is a project that many in the area have waited years to see come to fruition.
Raiford says about 66 miles of drainage channels will be improved as part of the project.
The 2020 SEC schedule has officially dropped for all teams, with LSU set to start the year September 5th against UT San Antonio before taking on Texas September 12th, and finishing out their Texas trio with a contest against Rice September 19th at a neutral site in Houston. The team has a brutal stretch from October 10th-November 7th where they’ll play, Florida, MS State, and Alabama in less than a month. They end the regular season with Auburn November 21st and a major revenge game November 28th against A&M.
Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says the future of agriculture in Louisiana may look a lot different in five years. Strain says internationally, they’re working on a new trade deal with Britain, which appears set to leave the European Union in the near future, but it’s the trade war with China that has many farmers in Louisiana stuck in the middle.
Louisiana accounts for one percent of the soybean production in the US, with 60% of the national export sent to China.
A Clinical Psychologist at LSU Health New Orleans says the mass panic and conflicting reports of a shooter at a Walmart in Baton Rouge yesterday may be the psychological effects of recent mass shootings. Authorities say a gun was drawn during an altercation, but despite multiple eyewitness accounts, no shot was ever fired. Michelle Moore says when in fight or flight the nervous system just takes over…
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