Governor Landry has asked members of Louisiana’s Congressional delegation to move West Feliciana Parish from the federal judicial Middle District to the Western District. Federal civil cases involving Angola state prisoners would then be heard in the Western District instead of the Middle District. Governor Landry has said the judges in the Middle District to liberal. But Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says once confirmed to the federal bench, that’s when politics are supposed to come to an end.
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Governor Landry is going to have another tough sell on his hands with the L-A GATOR program. That’s the voucher program that provides tax dollars to allow parents to, among other things, send their kids to private schools. Senate President Cameron Henry is looking to keep the program’s funding at 43.5-million dollars. Landry wants to bump that to 88-million, which Henry says is untenable.
Budget hearings begin in earnest next week in the House and we’ll see how the debate on this issue goes.
David Cupp, Billy Rogers Leonard and Jim Simon were all inducted into the Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction during a ceremony last night hosted by the Louisiana Radio Network. Leonard is the owner of Integrated Crop Consulting. He spent over 35 years working for the LSU Ag Center, where he worked on over one-thousand scientific and technical articles and mentored dozens of grad students…
The sixth ranked LSU women’s basketball team beat Tennessee 89 to 73 last night. It was Flau’jae Johnson’s final regular season game at the PMAC. Coach Kim Mulkey says it’s rare for a talented player like Johnson to play four years at one school and graduate…
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LSU closes out the regular season on Sunday at Mississippi State.