Governor Landry is going to have another tough sell on his hands with the L-A GATOR program. Senate President Cameron Henry is looking to keep funding at 43.5-million dollars, while Landry wants to bump it to 88-million, which Henry says is untenable.
Landry, meanwhile, wants to shift West Feliciana Parish’s federal judicial district to the Western District to ease the caseload in the Middle District. But legal analysts say he has an ulterior motive – to move cases involving prisoners at Angola from courts with all judges appointed by Obama to courts with most judges appointed by Trump. Franz Borghardt says the nominating president is no indication of how the judge will rule in future cases.
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In a ceremony hosted by Louisiana Radio Network, three vital members of the state’s ag industry were inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction. Among them is David Cupp, the president of the Walsh Timber Company in Sabine Parish. He’s spent 45 years working in the forestry industry.
The other two are Billy Rogers Leonard and Jim Simon (Sea-mon).
Crawfish season is officially underway – and with that, prices are starting to come down. According to The Crawfish App, live crawfish is averaging $4.50 a pound, while boiled crawfish is about $7.25 a pound. Co-founder Laney King says those are down about a dollar from two to three weeks ago.