Senate President Cameron Henry has told Governor Landry he opposes his idea of doubling the amount of state funding for the Louisiana Gator Program. L-A Gator is the state’s voucher program that pays the tuition costs for thousands of students to attend private school. Landry’s goal is for the program to grow so that more than just low-income families can receive state assistance. Henry says if you keep doubling the cost of the program, eventually, you’ll have to stop doubling it…
Cut 13 (07) “….it’s not sustainable”
If you are looking for crawfish this weekend. According to the Crawfish App, expect to pay $4.50 a pound for live crawfish and $7.25 for boiled crawfish. Crawfish App co-founder Laney King says today’s prices are about $1.50 a pound higher than what they typically are at the official outset of crawfish season.
Cut 11 (13) “…definitely by Easter.”
King says she expects crawfish prices to come down about $2.50 a pound between now and Mother’s Day.
Governor Landry is asking Congress to shift West Feliciana Parish’s federal judicial district from the Middle District to the Western District. In a letter to lawmakers, Landry stated that his reason is to ease the caseload in a district with a growing population. However, legal analyst Franz Borghardt says Landry has an ulterior motive – to shift cases involving prisoners at Angola to court where he could get more favorable rulings.
Cut 3 (09) “…the Middle District.”
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…