Planning for the 2026 legislative session will intensify now that it’s a new year. Jeff Palermo reports on the big issues lawmakers will tackle this year…
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The federal government minted its last penny about two months ago, but it will be decades before the penny becomes a rare coin. Newly confirmed U.S. Mint Director Paul Hollis from Mandeville says enough pennies have been minted to stack them to the moon and back.
A statue was unveiled in Avoyelles Parish to commemorate the 165th anniversary of the liberation of Solomon Northup a wrongfully enslaved man born a free man in upstate New York in 1807 whose Autobiography “12 Years a Slave,” you may know. His direct descendant, Melissa Howell, recounts that in 1841, two men approached him with what seemed to be a lucrative offer.
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He escaped slavery with the help of a Louisiana carpenter.
For those who made healthy lifestyle resolutions for the new year, LSU Health Shreveport Director of Institutional Wellness Dr. Marie Vasquez Morgan has some helpful advice. She says maintaining any resolution starts with setting S.M.A.R.T goals.