Higher Education Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed is asking lawmakers to provide at least an additional 119-million dollars in state funding for higher ed. She says higher ed is 869-million dollars short of being fully funded because of inflation, enrollment dips and Reed says institutions are also feeling the pressure because athletic expenses are increasing.
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Louisiana is the third best state to practice medicine, says a Wallet Hub report. 19 metrics were used including annual salaries, quality of public hospital systems, number of hospitals per capita, and projected supply of physicians by 2032. Wallet Hub analyst, Chip Lupo says Louisiana is doing a good job in retaining young doctors who had just completed their residencies.
Saints veteran defensive end Cameron Jordan made some notable comments regarding free agency on Terron Armstead’s “The Set” podcast on Monday. Jordan said that just because he loves the city of New Orleans doesn’t mean the city or the organization has to love him back. Matt Paras, who covers the Saints for The Baton Rouge Advocate, says Jordan sounds open to leaving the Saints.
The U-L system’s lawsuit against Conference USA is stalled since the conference made a motion to move the suit to federal court. The lawsuit on behalf of Louisiana Tech was filed in Tech’s quest to join the Sun Belt for the 2026 season. Both conferences include Tech on their 2026 football schedules. Matt Bellinson, a reporter with the Ruston Daily Leader, says even before it had issued its press release last week announcing that it plans on playing the 2026 Sun Belt schedule, Tech made it perfectly clear which direction it had planned on going.