Like John Kennedy, Bill Cassidy was among the 77 senators who voted in favor of the Protect College Sports Act. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Diesel prices across the globe are still skyrocketing with no clear end in sight. Kace Kieschnick has more…
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Not the start to the school day that dozens of Shreveport middle school students were hoping for. Fire Chief Clarence Reese says about 58 students at Northside Lanier Middle School were aboard a school bus en route to school when it became involved in a crash with a car at an intersection in a neighborhood in the northwest side of the city.
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Chief Reese says several people had to be taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. (20 injured; 18 kids aboard the bus and the bus driver, and the driver of the sedan)
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Reese says because of the number of people injured, they had to get several resources to the scene to assist them.
Shreveport Police is investigating the cause of the crash. No word on who, if anyone, was cited in the crash.
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Like John Kennedy, Bill Cassidy was among the 77 senators who voted in favor of the Protect College Sports Act last night. One of the provisions that resonates with him the most is the one that limits student-athletes to just one transfer without having to sit out a year. Cassidy said he had a conversation with former LSU and Alabama head football coach Nick Saban about a student-athlete 30 credit hours shy of graduation transferring to another school.
College-hopping has become more and more popular among student-athletes in recent years after the NCAA eliminated its one-time transfer rule. Cassidy says that’s going to be very counter-productive for the student-athlete in the long-term, especially since only one-percent of them play sports professionally.
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Kennedy proposed an amendment that would have capped ticket price hikes to four-percent. That amendment was defeated, and Cassidy was among the senators who voted “no” to sink it.
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The Protect College Sports Act now heads to the House, where its future is uncertain. The House is in recess until after the midterm election; so when it takes up the bill, time will be of the essence – it will need to get onto President Trump’s desk by January 3rd, or the process will need to start all over again from square one when the new Congress is sworn in.
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Prices at the pump continue to soar across the country. Gas-Buddy-dot-com has the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in Louisiana at about three-dollars-and-98-cents, that’s actually down nearly four cents from last week. GasBuddy-dot-com Chief Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says diesel prices are still at record highs.
DeHaan says that while you may not personally use diesel fuel, the steep prices will affect the cost of everything else you buy.
DeHaan does not expect prices to go down anytime soon thanks to geopolitical conflicts. U.S. attacks on Iran and Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries have driven up prices globally.
DeHaan says prices will continue to rise until conflicts deescelate.