State Treasurer John Fleming is calling for a major increase in Louisiana’s homestead exemption. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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A Lafayette Parish sheriff’s deputy is being hailed a hero after saving an 8-year-old non-speaking child with autism from a pond early last month. Officials say deputies were responding to reports of a missing child, but then learned the girl later went under in neck deep water. We’re told Corporal Jared Havard entered the pond in full duty attire, found the girl, and pulled her to safety
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After Leaders for a Better Louisiana urges voters to vote “no” on Amendment Eight, we are now hearing from the author of that amendment. Rosepine Representative Chuck Owen says Amendment 8 would prohibit a foreign adversary or an agent of a foreign adversary from seizing private property for necessary purposes, known as expropriation.
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The shipbuilding industry in Louisiana just got a shot in the arm with the Small Business Administration granting Fletcher Technical Community College in Terrebonne Parish nearly five-million dollars. Carrie Cortez, the vice chancellor for academic affairs and workforce initiatives at Fletcher, says the school will use that money to offer hands-on practical training, which the school affectionately calls “boot camp.”