PETA has written a letter to Governor Landry urging him to abandon the idea of having LSU’s live mascot tiger return to Tiger Stadium as part of the pregame pageantry before a football game. Klayton Rutherford with the PETA foundation and says tigers are normally solitary animals…
Cut 11 (09) “…absurd plan”
Veterinarians have said Mike the Seven is at an age, where you can’t change his routine, so getting him in a portable cage is not feasible.
State Treasurer John Fleming presented a retired man in Baton Rouge with a check of 13-thousand dollars. The money came from the state’s Unclaimed Property Program. Fleming says his office will go to great lengths to track down the rightful owner…
Cut 8 (09) “…of their heir”
Fleming says the unclaimed property program has more than 900-million dollars in unclaimed property.
The Advocate is reporting another high-level official with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has left. DEQ’s budget chief Christian Griffiths is now with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Another top ranking official, Chandra Pidgeon, who left after only two weeks on the job, accused DEQ Secretary Aurelia Giacometto of harassing employees. Governor Landry has said the criticisms of Giacometto are from entrenched bureaucrats who resist change.
Bill Franques will fill-in for Tiger Stadium’s long-time public address announcer Dan Borne who is taking a temporary leave of absence for health reasons