If you’d like to vote in the November 3rd election – which is three weeks from today – and you have yet to register, you have until today to do so – and your only option is to do it online. Trey Williams with the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office says despite today’s deadline, you can actually register to vote at any time.
Governor Landry announces that the state is investing 3.5-billion dollars in rural Louisiana. ULM President Dr. Carrie Castille says the school has received a portion of 1.4-billion dollars from the Department of Health’s Rural Transformation Project to expand programs in its College of Health Sciences, which will expand their nursing enrollment.
Cut 9 (10) “…our rural communities.”
Billboard magazine rates UL Lafayette’s music business program as one of the 48 best in the world. Entrepreneurship Professor Jonathan Shirley helped create a concert called HodgePodge, in which students fill every role needed to stage the show.
Cut 15 (12) “…it’s their show.”
The annual open enrollment period for Medicare beneficiaries opens Thursday, and the Louisiana Department of Insurance has specialists ready to help navigate all the options. Ron Henderson, the deputy commissioner at the LDI’s office of consumer advocacy, says LDI will give unbiased advice, since it does not stand to benefit financially based on the selection.