Local school superintendents are not on board with Governor Landry’s plan to use 168-million dollars in funding for public schools to pay a two-thousand-dollar stipend for teachers. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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The City of New Orleans has announced a new task force to address blighted properties across the city. New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno announced Thursday that the new Adjudicated Property Task Force will address more than 6,500 city properties stuck in the tax-adjudication process, many of them for year or even generations.
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Early voting for the U.S. Senate runoff elections begins today, with these races determining once and for all who will advance to the November general election. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says while there was great anticipation leading up to the May 16th primaries, there seems to be a sense of apathy leading up to the runoffs – at least on the Republican side.
An already below-average hurricane season is now forecast to be even more so. Researchers from Colorado State University have revised their original prediction down from 13 to eleven, with just five hurricanes predicted now, two of them expected to be major. While this is good news, CSU Researcher Nick Mesa it does not mean you’re free to let your guard down this year or any year.