U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has come out in support of Governor Landry’s effort to double the state funding of the L-A GATOR scholarship Program. The state is spending 44-million dollars on the program this school year helping 56-hundred families with education expenses like private school tuition, but many more families are on a waiting list. Senate President Cameron Henry is concerned that the program could get too big to afford. LaPolitics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says L-A GATOR also has public backing.

Cut 21 (08) “…of the compromise.”

Certainly an issue to watch during this legislative session.

Congresswoman Julia Letlow releases a poll that shows her with a one percent lead over Bill Cassidy in the Senate Republican Primary. John Fleming is not far behind, trailing Letlow by eight percent. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says the survey of likely Republican primary voters finds 28-percent are undecided and Cross says Fleming is trying to reach those voters…

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For the second year in a row, the Southern University School of Nursing has been ranked by nurse-dot-org as the best nursing school in the country. Sandra Brown, the dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health, says this means they are graduating nurses who are well educated…

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Southern University produces the largest number of Black nurses in the state and the third most in the country.

It’s a chilly St. Patrick’s Day. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says several morning lows were broken…

Cut 6 (07) “…recorded in 1976”

A record low was also broken in Alexandria and Shreveport reached 28-degrees tying a record set in 1978.