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President Joe Biden has placed a moratorium on new oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, which will hurt Louisiana’s oil and gas industry…

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The 2021 SEC football schedule is out and LSU is set to play seven home and five away games. LSU’s SEC home games next fall will be against Auburn, Florida, Arkansas, and Texas A-and-M, and they’ll visit Mississippi State, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Alabama on November sixth.

Senator Bill Cassidy is pushing back against President Biden’s calls for a 15 dollar federal minimum wage. He says the push for 15 an hour by 2025 would kill struggling restaurants that are barely hanging on right now.

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Proponents argue the prophesied major job losses never materialized in jurisdictions that independently raised their minimum wages.

K-12 teaching leaders in the state will be put through a 30+ hour course to educate them about how to better develop student’s emotional and social health. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says In the 2018-2019 school year, there were 30,239 days of missed school by students serving out-of-school suspensions, and helping student before they act out is key.

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