Early voting for the U.S. Senate runoff elections has begun. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says while there was great anticipation leading up to the May 16th primaries, there seems to be a sense of apathy leading up to the runoffs – at least on the Republican side…due in large part that the outcome of the GOP runoff doesn’t appear to be in doubt.
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Local school superintendents are not pleased with the governor’s plan to take 168-million dollars in public school funding and use that money instead to keep paying a two-thousand-dollar stipend for teachers. Rapides Parish Schools Superintendent Jeff Powell, who’s also the Louisiana Association of Superintendents, says the loss of funding will hurt and school leaders are talking to their local senators and representatives.
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The World Cup officially began with two games in Mexico yesterday, and the first match on American soil is tonight between the U.S. and Paraguay. Kace Kieshnick reports.
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An already below-average hurricane season is now forecast to be even slower, down from 13 named storms, and six hurricanes to just 11 named storms, including five hurricanes. Researchers from Colorado State University have revised their original prediction which still includes two major hurricanes. CSU Researcher Nick Mesa says the rise of El Nino conditions is what’s lowering the threat.