Congressman Clay Higgins is among the 13-member House task force investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Governor Jeff Landry spoke with Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana today about the pushback the newly signed ten Commandments law is receiving from civil liberty groups and faith leaders in the state. Sean Richardson has more.
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A groundbreaking ceremony for the new nursing Annex Building at Nicholls State University, home of the Thibodaux Regional Health System School of Nursing was held today. Dean Raquel Engolio says this marks the beginning of a project aimed at enhancing the university’s nursing education facilities.
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The annex will provide state-of-the-art classrooms, simulation labs, and collaborative spaces designed to support the growing needs of the nursing program and its students. Engolio says currently the program enrolls 80 students per semester …
The project is seen as a critical investment in the future of healthcare in the region with the $27 million in funding from state-appropriated funds
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Southwest Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins will serve on the bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination attempt of former President Trump. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says because Higgins is among the most conservative members of Congress…
With several conspiracy theories circulating about the shooting, Cross believes Higgins will most likely bring a skeptical view to the panel which he believes is an asset if Higgins says it was a thorough investigation and he agrees with their findings.
The task force is composed of seven Republicans and six Democrats. Cross says it will be interesting to see the extent to which each member comes in with a set agenda. Are they there in a fact-finding role or will they bring in a preset view of what they think occurred?
Higgins released a statement that he’s looking forward to working with bipartisan colleagues to deliver the truth.
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Governor Jeff Landry spoke with Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana about the pushback against the passage of the Ten Commandments Law which requires all state-funded schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The law is set to go into effect on January 1st. Landry signed the controversial measure into law last month.
The law is facing litigation from several families and advocacy groups, who say it violates the separation of church and state.
But Landry argues that the Ten Commandments are the foundation for our rule of law and they are woven into the fabric of America’s laws…
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The Ten Commandments law has been widely shunned by civil liberty groups and faith leaders as being a gross infringement on the rights of students and a violation of the separation of church and state under the Constitution. Landry disagrees with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the law..
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Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill support the new law, and Murrill says she is looking forward to defending it. A hearing in a federal courtroom is scheduled for September 30th.
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Louisiana Senator John Kennedy had a chance to grill U-S Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe on Capitol Hill today about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Kennedy questioned Rowe on why Secret Service snipers didn’t see Thomas Crooks laying on a roof 150 feet away from were Trump was speaking
Rowe testified before the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees. Kennedy is a member of Senate Judiciary. Kennedy says the Secret Service snipers were in an elevated position above the roof and he doesn’t understand why they didn’t see Crooks…
Kennedy says he’s heard reports Secret Service snipers saw Crooks 20 minutes before he fired his AR-style rifle. Rowe says that report is inaccurate