Treasurer John Schroder launches an attack ad linking gubernatorial opponent Jeff Landry to a Texas attorney accused of scamming property owners after the 2020 hurricanes. ULM Political Science Professor Dr. Joshua Stockley says it’s a topic that south Louisiana residents are familiar with…
LSU coach Kim Mulkey has reportedly agreed to a ten-year contract worth 32-million dollars, which would be the richest total contract in women’s college basketball history. LSU won the first national championship in program history last April and the Advocate’s Scott Rabalais says it took Mulkey only two seasons to reach the top…
The LSU Board of the Supervisors is expected to approve the record deal tomorrow.
Brutally hot and dry weather has kept 95 percent of the state in “extreme to exceptional” drought conditions for another week, according to the U-S Drought Monitor. State climatologist Barry Keim says “extreme and exceptional” drought conditions have gotten worse.
This year’s Christmas Grinch is the state’s extreme drought. Christmas Town, a tree farm in Tangipahoa Parish, announced it will not open for business this year. Owner Lisa Miller says it takes seven to nine years to grow a 6-foot to 8-foot marketable size Christmas tree. She hopes to preserve the tradition next Christmas.
The Southern Christmas Tree Association says the Christmas Town farm is the only one they know of that will not be open this season.