President Biden delivers his farewell address at seven tonight. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Louisiana Department of Education launches its new website. Colleen Crain reports.
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President Biden delivers his farewell address tonight. ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says Biden will tout his accomplishments in his four years in office.
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Cross says he also expects Biden to make at least a passing reference to his predecessor and successor.
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All in all, Cross expects this farewell address to be a traditional one.
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Biden’s address is at seven Central time.
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The Louisiana Department of Education launches its new website today. Department spokesman Ted Beasley says the old website was ten years old and was getting to be a tad cumbersome to use. Beasley says the new website is easier to navigate.
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Beasley says part of that is what he calls community homepages contained within the website, including those for students, family, educators and system leaders.
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Beasley says they also spent time making the site as aesthetically pleasing as possible.
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The website also has a new web address – doe.louisiana.gov. Those who still go to louisianabelieves.com will be redirected to the new URL.
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Buzz is building for the probability of winter precipitation next week. LRN Meteorologist Bill Jacquemin says there’s a chance a large portion of the state could see snow and ice on Tuesday, but what we know for sure is that it will be cold, with dangerous wind chills…
Jacquemin says for snow, there needs to be precipitation, and it remains to be seen if the conditions will be right for precipitation to fall…
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Jacquemin says we’ll have to wait a few more days before forecasters can accurately predict the possibility for snow. But he says there’s an excellent chance for pipe busting cold…
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Small businesses are more optimistic now than they have been in the last six years. That’s according to the latest Small Business Optimism Index by the National Federation of Independent Business. State Director Leah Long says small business owners are looking forward to the upcoming change at 16-hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Here locally, Long says the reduction in the income tax will be a big boost to small business owners.
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Long says one thing that small business owners want out of the new administration is the reauthorization of the Main Street Tax Act.