It’s the second full day of the special session and some big votes are expected today on the House and Senate floors. The House meets at noon and they could take up a proposal that will shift federal, statewide and some judicial elections to closed party primaries. Carencro Representative Julie Emerson says closed party primaries put Republicans and Democrats in control of which candidate appears on the general election ballot…
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The full Senate is expected to vote on a new Congressional District map that would make Congressman Garret Graves district a second Black majority district by stretching it from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Graves believes the state legislature should take the current map and demand a trial in federal court on whether its constitutional…
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U-S House Speaker Mike Johnson agrees, but Governor Jeff Landry believes the map proposed in the Senate should be the state’s new Congressional map.

Big changes went down with the Saints coaching staff yesterday as Pete Carmichael was fired after 15 years as the team’s offensive coordinator. Locked on Saints Podcast host Ross Jackson says quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry could get promoted, but there are also quality candidates outside of the organization
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Saints general manager Mickey Loomis is expected to speak with reporters today.

After three-plus years as Louisiana Tech’s athletic director, Eric Wood, is leaving Ruston for a position in Ole Miss’s athletic department. Louisiana Tech president Doctor Jim Henderson says Wood was instrumental in the post-tornado recovery and reconstruction and oversaw championships in baseball, softball, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. He says student-athletes also broke several academic records too…
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