A new Superdome lease agreement between the state and the Saints has been signed….
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Louisiana Democratic Congressman Cleo Fields is facing allegations of insider trading. The news website NOTUS, reports Fields bought a large amount of Oracle stock days before President Trump signed an executive order that gave the technology giant a leading role in TikTok’s pending U-S spinoff from a Chinese company. Fields denies he had any inside knowledge.
We head into the weekend with no signs that the federal government will be re-opened anytime soon. The government shutdown means federal workers will be without a paycheck until Congress can agree on a funding bill. Kris Linsey-Hall, associate professor of marketing at LSU, says the shutdown comes as consumers are already losing confidence…
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U-L Lafayette is tightening its belt to counter a 25-million dollar budget deficit. Interim president Jason Herbert says the university has implemented ten-percent operational spending cuts and other cost-saving measures…
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Hebert says they hope to reach fiscal stability by May.