Higher education in Louisiana is receiving a 12-percent increase in state funding, the largest ever state funding increase for higher ed. Nearly 32-million dollars will be used to give the largest state-funded faculty pay increase since 2007. Higher Ed Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed says the pay raise will help the state keep its best professors
A bill that’s made its way to the governor’s desk will allow trucks to pull two 20-foot containers to and from shipping ports. Now they still have to be under the state’s 37-thousand pounds per axle limit. But Norco Senator Gary Smith hopes his legislation can help with supply chain issues…
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The state transportation department will issue the annual permits and the new tandem load permit can only be used on designated roadways.
The latest report from trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund says the program will be insolvent by the year 2034. Senator Bill Cassidy says this is an issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible and current laws regarding social security would greatly reduce monthly benefits for those collecting benefits.
Cassidy met with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who says she’s willing to meet with Republican lawmakers to address the issue.
The FDA advisory committee is recommending that the FDA give full approval to Novavax, which is another COVID vaccine. LSU Health New Orleans Chair of Genetics Doctor Lucio Miele says it’s best to have as many different vaccines as possible that use different technologies to combat a virus that he says is here to stay.