Problems at the OMV today due to network outages. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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According to a report by the Louisiana Illuminator, state lawmakers have until June 23rd to decide if 168-million dollars should be taken away from public school operations so that teachers do not receive a two-thousand dollar pay cut. This is Governor Landry’s plan to fund a teacher stipend, but it needs a two-thirds vote in both the House and Sente for it to happen.
Meta has launched an AI infrastructure jobs training program and will have a training academy in Baton Rouge. Meta has already begun construction on a 27-billion-dollar data center in Richland Parish.
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Meta Director of U.S. Policy Diana Doukas says Meta will pay for the four to five week bootcamp and upon graduation, trainees are employed by that contractor partner and assigned to work on-site at a Meta data center construction site.
Republican State Representative Gabe Firment of Grant Parish says he’s looking at running for Congress. Firment says he’s fielded numerous calls about running for the open fifth district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he believes he would be very effective.
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Firment says he plans to make a decision next month.