House Republicans approve a budget for next fiscal year that does not contain funding for a two-thousand dollar teacher pay raise. Appropriations Chairman Jerome Zeringue, a Republican from Houma, says their funding plan calls for the paying down of debt of the state retirement system, which would free up dollars for local school systems to give out the raise
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Democrats are skeptical and so is Governor Edwards. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne delivered this message to the House…
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The Senate will vote on its budget proposal in a few weeks.

An experimental medication called donanemab (Dough-nan-e-mab) has shown promising results in slowing cognitive decline in Alzheimer patients…
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The coronation of King Charles the Third takes place in England tomorrow. There are some who don’t like Charles because of the affair he had with his current wife while married to Princess Diana. LSU Professor Meredith Veldman says in the U-K there’s a PR campaign to change the narrative…
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