Louisiana Democrats come away from Tuesday’s election without a U.S. Senate seat, but with a lot of optimism for what the future holds. Joe Gallinaro reports.
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If Governor Jeff Landry does win re-election next year, he would enter his second and last term ever as Governor of Louisiana. That’s because voters on Tuesday passed Constitutional Amendment Four, which limits governors to two lifetime terms. Before, governors who serve two terms could run for re-election after sitting out a term.
With the upcoming arrival of the SpaceX spaceport in Vermilion Parish, UL Lafayette is expanding its space-focused academic programs by launching a new aerospace engineering concentration within the college of mechanical engineering, along with a minor in autonomous systems. President Dr. Ramesh Kolluru says while they will be taught by existing faculty for now, adding more faculty is in the long-term plan.
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Big game in Death Valley Saturday afternoon as LSU hosts Alabama. The Crimson Tide’s run game has disappeared in its last two games, but with his team facing a Death Valley crowd, Head Coach Kalen DeBoer says it will be important to establish the ground game on the road.