Higher ed faces huge budget cuts due to a $1.6 billion budget shortfall for the legislative session, and dozens of students are speaking out at the state capital. Jesse Elliot of LSU-Alexandria says funding for higher education has been on the chopping block for the last eight years and the state must establish stable funding for colleges and universities…
cut 13 (11) “eight years ago”
Another student called it “theft of the future”

Monster Moto, which is a motorcycle assembly company has announced they will be construct a new facility in Ruston, that will build go-carts and minibikes. They also announced the relocation of their corporate offices from Dallas to Ruston, as well.
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The ACLU is letting their voices be heard about the state’s massive incarceration rate, and how important that is to discuss in the upcoming governor’s race…
CUT 11 (10) Q; ‘not the last”
That’s ACLU Executive Director Marjorie Esman, who says Louisiana wastes millions in tax dollars paying for inmates who pose little to no threat to our society and believes small offenses would be better addressed by other means.

Natchitoches Police say the assistant principal at Frankie Ray Jackson Senior Technical Center is under arrest for allegedly paddling a teacher. Captain Chris Payne says they got the complaint in February regarding a female teacher at the school, that lead to the arrest of 64-year-old Hugo Vogel of Goldonna. Captain Chris Payne says the are looking for any additional information in the case…
CUT 8 (04) Q: ‘kept confidential”