President Trump is floating an idea of using tariff income to give Americans two-thousand-dollar rebate checks. It’s a decision that Trump cannot make unilaterally – it’s Congress which controls the purse strings, and House Speaker Mike Johnson says there may be other options for using that tariff income.
The Supreme Court may ultimately have the final say.
LSU’s School of Information Studies is marking this Veterans Day with a 91-thousand-dollar grant aimed at preserving the records of Vietnam-era military veterans. Dr. Edward Benoit, the interim director of S-I-S, says the two-year planning project will create a program for librarians, archivists and Veteran Service Organizations to help those veterans document and preserve those records.
The Louisiana High School football playoffs kick off Friday. Jeff Palermo has a look at the non-select brackets.
Cut 3 (32) “…I’m Jeff Palermo.”
Two football games involving Louisiana universities were marred by fights over the weekend, and their respective conferences have handed down punishments. The Sun Belt Conference has suspended six Texas State and seven UL-Lafayette football players after a postgame altercation following the Cajuns’ 42-39 win. Head coach Michael Desormeaux (DEZ-er-moe) says he was frustrated with how things were handled at the end of the game.
Cut 9 (11) “…how this happened.”
The SWAC is suspending 18 Grambling State and nine Bethune-Cookman after their football players involvement in a brawl in their game. Both schools were also fined.