Hall of Famer Kim Mulkey is back home as the Tickfaw native is the new head LSU women’s basketball coach The 58-year-old Mulkey has an impressive resume. Three national championships as head coach at Baylor. The voice of the Lady Tigers, Patrick Wright, says it’s a blockbuster hire…
Mulkey will be introduced during a 5 PM press conference.
Lawmakers continue to tackle tax reform and Governor John Bel Edwards says he supports the effort but only if it produces revenue-neutral results. Legislators would like to lower individual income tax rates, but also eliminate deducting federal income taxes paid on your state taxes. Governor Edwards says that approach has a lot of merit…
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The state health department tells vaccine providers to resume using the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine. The CDC and the FDA say the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the rare risk of developing blood clots. State Health Officer Doctor Joe Kanter says it’s incredible how quickly the agencies acted after it was determined the J & J vaccine was responsible for blood clots in six American women.
When you think of tea Tangipahoa Parish probably doesn’t come to mind, but it is home to one of the few tea farms in the United States. Owner of the Fleur De Lis Tea Company David Barron has a 160-acre farm in Amite. Barron purchased the pine tree farm more than ten years ago and he ventured into the tea business when a fellow horticulturist offered him a tea plant that he was cultivating.
Barron says if you can grow a camellia, you can grow tea.