The House Appropriations Committee has approved a budget for next fiscal year that calls for teachers to receive a 13-hundred dollar stipend, instead of the two-thousand dollar stipend Governor Landry proposed in his budget proposal. New Orleans Representative Jason Hughes says there’s time during the budget process to find money so the stipend is two-thousand…
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The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete clauses, which means companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa…
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A lawsuit is expected to keep this new rule from going into effect.

Governor Jeff Landry’s former campaign manager, Cory Dennis, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party. Jeff Palermo has more…
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In sports…the 19th ranked U-L Lafayette softball team upset seventh ranked LSU nine to four last night. LSU baseball blanked Nicholls nine to nothing. Tommy White hit two home runs, one of his blasts hit a fan in the head, but he’s okay and it’s become a viral moment.