Early voting for the June 27th election is underway. The US Senate Republican primary pits John Fleming versus Julia Letlow, while the Democratic Primary runoff has Jamie Davis versus Gary Crockett. ULM Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says the lack of drama in the runoff will likely carry over into the general election…
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School Superintendents are not on board with Governor Landry’s plan to use 168-million dollars in public school funding to pay the two-thousand stipend that teachers have received the last three years. During a press conference last week, Landry directed local school systems to use non-instructional dollars to pay the two-thousand-dollar stipend for teachers and one-thousand dollars for support workers. But Rapides Parish schools’ Superintendent Jeff Powell says non-instructional dollar covers a lot of the operating costs.
Lawmakers have until June 23rd to turn in a mail in vote on Landry’s teacher pay plan. It needs two-thirds approval in the House and Senate.
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 says it does not mean we should let our guard down.
The United States begins play in the World Cup tonight as they take on Paraguay in Los Angeles. The nearest host sites to Louisiana are Atlanta, Dallas and Houston, but Paul Boron who does reporting for the Louisiana Soccer Association says tickets are extremely expensive and he says FIFA has done that by design…
Cut 12 (12) “…to get in”
The cheapest tickets to get into even low-demand games are upwards of 200 dollars.