Mary Bird Perkins is expanding into Central and North Louisiana in a partnership with MD Clinics. Colleen Crain has more…
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Daybreak Health, the leading provider of school based mental health services, has partnered with Livingston Parish Schools to give students free mental health classes. Teiko Foxx explains…
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Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields says he’s planning to run for congress in the newly drawn map that creates a majority-Black 6th congressional district. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center announces their expansion into Central and North Louisiana in a partnership with MD Clinics which serves a large diverse population in cities and rural communities. Mary Bird Perkins Chief Operating Officer, Jodi Conachen (Con uh kin) says they found a like- minded partner to bring quality cancer care close to home in the region…
Cut 4 (08) “…across the state.”
In Baton Rouge, Mary Bird Perkins recently launched First Phase Cancer Research Trials. Conachen says until recently you had to leave the state to find that level of research and availability of clinical trial and they plan to bring the trial to the expanded clinics….
Conachen expects the expansion across Louisiana’s diverse culture and population to attract more cancer research and services to the area…
Beginning April 2024 MD Clinics will become Mary Bird Perkins locations.
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New data released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Louisiana added 33-hundred non-farm jobs from November to December. Louisiana Workforce Commission Chief Economist Emily DiPalma says the number of non-farm jobs was just under two-million….
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Dipalma says the state’s unemployment rate for December was 3.7 percent…
Over the year, private education and health services gained 11-thousand jobs, 82-hundred construction jobs were added and the government added 71-hundred jobs.
Dipalma says New Orleans added 800 jobs from November to December, while the Shreveport metro area added 700. She thought it was significant that Shreveport added that many jobs…
Baton Rouge added 400 jobs from November to December, Monroe added 300, while Alexandria lost 300.
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The Livingston Parish School system is offering its high school students struggling with anxiety, depression or any mental illness 12 weeks of free teletherapy through a program called Daybreak. Federal Program Coordinator at Livingston Schools, Charlene Lilly, says they are the first school district in the state to offer free mental health support for students.
Students can enroll by scanning a QR code or reaching out to their school counselors. Parental consent is required before Daybreak can connect students with a licensed counselor.
Lilly says the program gives the students what they need at their leisure at no cost.
Lilly says 62 percent of students in Louisiana who had mental depression didn’t receive any care over the last two years. She believes Daybreak will have a positive impact on the students and help to fill a gap.
Lilly says instead of being placed on a waiting list for six months to see a private doctor, through the Daybreak program, students will begin their first session in one to two weeks.
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Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields says he will run for the newly created 6th congressional seat currently held by Congressman Garret Graves. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says he’s not surprised considering the new map perfectly caters to the Black Democrat.
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And it wouldn’t be Fields first congressional campaign. From 1993 to 1997 Fields represented the state’s then 4th district which was then redrawn after the courts ruled it was gerrymandered. Pinsonat says with the map redrawn again, Fields’ congressional career could come full circle.
District 6 now spans from East Baton Rouge Parish north to Caddo Parish and Pinsonat says it’s around 54 percent majority-Black. He says Fields running for the seat is a no-brainer.
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Fields released a statement on Tuesday that he will formally announce his candidacy in the next few weeks.
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LSU is expected to announce the promotion of Joe Sloan and Cortez Hankton as co-offensive coordinators for the 2024 season. Both have been assistants at LSU since Brian Kelly arrived. Hankton has coached the receivers and has been the passing game coordinator, while Sloan has been the quarterbacks coach and reports say Sloan will be the play caller. Tiger Rag Editor Todd Horne the move makes sense…
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Sloan has previous play-calling experience at Louisiana Tech. He’ll have big shoes to fill as former offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock helped guide one of the most explosive offenses in LSU football history. Horne believes Sloan is up to the challenge…
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ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper has the Washington Commanders with the second over pick taking Jayden Daniels in the 2024 NFL draft. Daniels says he’s not paying attention to the mock drafts…
Some football analysts compare Daniels’ quarterback style to Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, who has won one MVP and has Baltimore in this Sunday’s AFC Championship game. Daniels says he’s just trying to be me…
Cut 19 (16) “…came before me.”
Daniels was a dynamic quarterback last season. He believes his speed will be a big asset…