A state lawmaker is proposing a pay raise for legislators that would nearly quadruple their annual salaries. Gretna Representative Joe Marino’s measure would give legislators a new base salary of 60-thousand dollars. There current annual salary is 16,800. The increases would take effect new year, when there’s a new legislative body.

The state’s Secretary of Environmental Quality has resigned. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
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Match Day figures from LSU Health New Orleans indicate 80 percent of their graduating students who are staying in Louisiana will do their residency at either New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles and Bogalusa. Richard DiCarlo, Interim Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, says it’s very encouraging when their grads remain in-state.
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Match Day is when every medical graduate student in the country learns which residency program they will enter.

A new report from LSU’s Center for Energy Studies estimates that a planned carbon capture and sequestrian hub to be located in Calcasieu Parish could abate climate damages by 11-billion dollars over the lifetime of the project…
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That’s interim executive director for the LSU Center for Energy Studies, Greg Upton, who says Gulf Coast Sequestration plans to build the first hub in the U-S to permanently store carbon dioxide emissions.