LSU has a new president and chancellor of its flagship school as William Tate the 4th was a unanimous pick by the LSU Board of Supervisors. He becomes LSU’s first Black president and the first African American university president in the SEC. Governor Edwards says Tate, who is a provost at the University of South Carolina, is the right person to lead LSU.

The Louisiana House has approved a 36-billion dollar budget for the next fiscal year and they also agreed on how the state should spend 925-million dollars in federal coronavirus aid…
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During the President’s visit to Lake Charles, Mayor Nic Hunter had a chance to meet with Mr. Joe Biden to discuss funding for a new I-10 bridge and hurricane relief dollars. Hunter says the long wait for federal aid has been unacceptable…
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The President also went to New Orleans and toured the Carrollton water plant. Officials with the Sewerage and Water Board say the facility desperately needs to be modernized.

An LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study indicates the pandemic was responsible for almost doubling the loss of sleep for mothers of pre-school-aged children. Researcher Dr. Chelsea Kracht says they surveyed close to two thousand mothers who on average sleep less anyway, but the epidemic only worsened the situation.
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