Congresswoman Julia Letlow announced last week she’s co-sponsoring a constitutional amendment to ban the burning of the U.S. flag. She says it’s about protecting the flag and what it represents. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark cast that flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected under the First Amendment. Letlow says…
A proposed amendment must be approved by two-thirds of both the House and Senate and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.
Louisiana Tech has officially accepted the invitation to join the Sun Belt and will discuss the decision today at a 3 p-m press conference. KNOE-TV Sports Director Aaron Dietrich says it will be a big step towards saving money and selling tickets for both Louisiana Tech and ULM.
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If you hold a library card at the state library or at the library systems in Iberville, Livingston, Tangipahoa or Rapides parishes, you can now use your card to get into a museum! It’s an expansion of the State Library’s “Check Out Louisiana” program, which was originally developed to allow cardholders to obtain passes to state parks. State Librarian Meg Placke (PLACK-ee)
Cut 8 (08) “…with our museums.”
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center has launched the Pennington Generation research study to study childhood obesity. Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk, an associate executive director for population and public health science at Pennington Biomedical, says the study just got underway, with about 90 kids having participated so far. In all, he says about 15-hundred will participate over 10-20 years..