The first negative commercial of the governor’s race has hit the airwaves. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A data compiling website called RoadSnacks has put together a list of the “Most Redneck Cities in Louisiana” and Shreveport is number 1. Michelle Southern reports…:
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LSU football is teaming up with The Head Health Network to study how impacts to the head effect players. Emelie Gunn has more…
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Today a Federal judge is set to hear the case of Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against Governor Bobby Jindal over his decision to cut their Meicaid payments at clinics in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Court documents showed this week that the US Justice Department is siding with the organization. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…:
The DOJ says they haven’t seen “sufficient reasons” to keep Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast from receiving funding. The Jindal Administration says they planned to cancel the Medicaid contract starting today after secret videos surfaced which they believe show Planned Parenthood officials talking about selling fetuses. Pinsonat doesn’t think governors can just pull out of federal programs like this…:
In a statement, Planned Parenthood says Jindal’s decision will jeopardize health care for low-income, uninsured women and men. Pinsonat says whether you like federal programs or not, Louisiana is tied to most of them and you don’t have a choice but to comply…:
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Louisiana’s governor’s race has its first negative commercial. It comes from a super pac supporting Senator David Vitter. The 30-second TV ad criticizes Vitter’s republican opponents, Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne, for supporting tax increases. ULM political science professor Joshua Stockley says the commercial comes at a time when Angelle is showing signs of gaining support….
It’s been a quiet governor’s race as we are less than two months away from the October primary. Stockley says he figured it would get more heated around the Labor Day holiday…
Stockley says the other candidates also have super PACs, so he expects them to become more active now that the front-runner in the race has fired the first shot…
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A data compiling website called RoadSnacks has put together a list of the “Most Redneck Cities in Louisiana” and Shreveport is number 1. Rounding out the top five are Westwego, Mandeville, Slidell and Cut Off respectively. RoadSnacks co-founder Nick James says they started with the dictionary definition of redneck…:
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The article says the list is an opinion based on facts and is meant as “info-tainment.” James says an example of scientific data they used on the list included number of high school graduates in that particular city. He says the stereotypical categories on where rednecks might live in Louisiana were things like the number of Dollar Stores…:(You can check out the full list online at roadsnacks.net.)
James says many of the cities in Louisiana topping the list are places you might see deer horns on the hood of trucks and people attending church in cammo. He says so far they haven’t heard anybody in The Bayou State upset with their city ranking so high on the list…:
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The LSU football team and the Head Health Network are partnering up to study how impacts to the head effect players. H-H-N President Curtis Cruz says LSU is on the forefront for creating new technologies to prevent head injuries and the study will equip 24 players’ helmets with sensors to monitor impacts.
Cruz says this is so important because it allows us to learn what’s really happening and it’s difficult to observe from afar and to understand the effect of a big hit. He says science is just now coming to terms with what is significant as far as a critical threshold and accumulation of smaller hits.
Cruz says this study gives the training staff a much better handle on how to treat concussions. He says LSU has been proactive before and the Head Health Network is trying to improve the process by which LSU protects its players.
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UL Lafayette and ULM begin their season on Saturday by visiting SEC schools. The Ragin Cajuns, who return ten starters from last year’s nine-win team, will be at Kentucky, who went five and seven lasts season. Coach Mark Hudspeth says he’s anxious to see how his first-time starters will perform inside Commonwealth Stadium…
The Cajuns will have a new starter at quarterback, cornerback and along the defensive line. Kentucky has a first year offensive coordinator in Shannon Dawson. Hudspeth says Dawson was previously at West Virginia, so they have an idea on what they’ll see on Saturday, but they are also preparing for a few surprises…
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The Warhawks are at Georgia. The Bulldogs also have a new offensive coordinator in Brian Schottenheimer. ULM Coach Todd Berry wishes they had a preseason game to look at, so they would have a better idea what to expect from Georgia…
The Georgia game is the first eight road games for the Warhawks. They’ll also be at Alabama on September 26th. Berry admits he doesn’t have much control over scheduling, because the university needs the income from playing the big-time programs