A bill to end the state’s three-year rule, which prohibits insurers from dropping a policyholder they’ve insured for three or more years heads to the Senate floor.
Cut 3 (31) “…I’m Teiko Foxx.”
The Senate Education Committee has approved a school choice bill that would replace the current voucher system and give parents, regardless of income, the opportunity to receive state dollars to help pay for a private school education or other school-related expenses. The Public Affairs Research Council says the L-A Gator Scholarship Program would cost 650-million dollars annually in five to seven years.
LSU Health New Orleans says 172 of its graduating medical students participated in the National Resident Match Program and 80 of them will remain in Louisiana for their residency. Interim dean at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, Doctor Richard DiCarlo, says their graduates who matched residency programs in other states will attend some of the most prestigious out-of-state programs…
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Grambling State won its first NCAA men’s basketball tournament game last night, beating Montana State in overtime. Tonight, McNeese will face Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament. Coach Will Wade says this is his greatest coaching accomplishment, taking the Pokes to the Big Dance in his first year as head coach….
cut 13 (13) “…just phenomenal”
Tip off is at 6:25.