Louisiana lawmakers have approved a 48-billion dollar budget for next fiscal year. Jeff Palermo on what it contains…
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The legislative session ends today and lawmakers failed to approve a bill that would ban all edible THC products. Sean Richardson has more.
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Louisiana lawmakers have approved a 48-billion dollar budget that includes a two-thousand dollar stipend for teachers and hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure projects. House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says teachers can expect their two-thousand dollar stipend earlier next school year
McFarland says the goal is to make that two-thousand dollar stipend a permanent raise, but they need to see what future projections look like first.
McFarland says another highlight of this budget is what they decided to do with 771-million dollars in extra money they had to spend. He says instead of putting it into the Rainy Day Fund, they will spend it now
Early childhood advocates are not happy with this budget as nine-million dollars in funding to assist low income families pay for pre-k classes was cut. McFarland says part of the reasoning behind this…federal dollars from the pandemic that went towards early childhood education has expired
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The legislative session ends today with lawmakers failing to approve a bill that would ban edible THC products. This is a win for businesses and cannabis aficionados. Crescent Canna CEO Joe Gerrity led the effort to kill a bill that sought to prohibit consumable hemp products…
Lawmakers have approved new regulations, including age restrictions, limits on portion size and where these products can be sold.
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Gerrity says a lot of what he heard on the Senate and House floor is nonsense and the lawmakers that are working so hard to ban these products lack the basic fundamental understanding of them.
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Opponents of the THC industry says they’re still much too accessible and lack common-sense guardrails.
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In Reserve, a 16-year-old Aariah Henry was murdered early Sunday in what authorities believe was a targeted attack. St. John Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre says the victim was one of six in a Black Dodge Challenger and he’s shared video of the tragic incident in hopes of making an arrest.
You can see that video at LouisianaRadioNetwork.com
Tregre says they don’t believe Henry nor the other two females in the car were the intended victims…
Both cars from the incident have been recovered and are being processed for evidence.
The victim was a 10th grader at East St. John High School, and Tregre says after talking to Henry’s homeroom teacher, there’s no evidence to believe she incited the violence.
If you have any information you’re asked to contact investigators.
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There were six teams from Louisiana that made the NCAA Baseball Tournament and only LSU is left. The Ragin Cajuns were eliminated last night by Texas A-and-M as the Aggies defeated U-L Lafayette nine to four. Catcher Jose Torres says they gave it their best…
Deggs says Sunday night’s loss to the Aggies will motivate his team to go father next season
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Louisiana Tech’s magical season had a disappointing ending as the Bulldogs lost to Kansas State 19 to 4 and then 9-to-3 to Southeast Missouri in the Fayetteville Regional. Bulldogs Coach Lane Burroughs on what he told his team…
Tech won 45 games and a Conference USA Regular Season title. Burroughs says those are two great accomplishments, but the ultimate goal is a trip to the College World Series…
Tulane was eliminated on Sunday with a 17-7 loss to UC-Irvine. Nicholls and Grambling State had their seasons end on Saturday as they both failed to win a game at their respective regionals.