The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to revisit Louisiana’s congressional map and decide whether it violates the 14th and 15th Amendments. Colleen Crain reports…
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President Trump’s efforts to abolish the Department of Education and let states decide how to spend federal dollars has the full support of Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley. He says Louisiana would benefit from that kind of system, saying our literacy scores have improved, but there’s more work to be done.
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New rules for SNAP recipients in Louisiana will ban the use of food stamps in purchasing soft drinks, energy drinks and candy. hat new policy will go into effect in January. Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham says the goal is to help prevent future health problems for children.
ULM is set to spend just over 22-million dollars on athletics this year. That’s a little more than last year, but still one of the smallest budgets among FBS schools. Some say the Warhawks should drop down to the FCS level.
But KNOE-TV Sports Director Aaron Dietrich says the school is getting three-point-seven million dollars to play Alabama and Northwestern, because they are an FBS school…