The deadline to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is rapidly approaching. Jeff Palermo reports…
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Split playoffs that separate public and private schools are coming to the LHSAA in the sports of basketball, baseball and softball. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The deadline to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is this Sunday. Healthcare-dot-gov CEO Kevin Counihan says over 200,000 Louisianians have already signed up for coverage through the federal insurance marketplace. He says it’s easy to sign up and you only need four pieces of information to get started…
He says there is still plenty of time to get coverage before Sunday night’s midnight deadline, but encourages people to not wait until the last minute. Counihan says financial assistance through healthcare-dot-gov can really help in making insurance more affordable…
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He says 62-percent of Louisiana residents are able to find plans for $75 or less with financial assistance. Counihan says the penalty for choosing not to have health insurance has gone up this year…
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The Mardi Gras parade season has arrived and law enforcement is putting more officers on the roads. It’s part of the Drive Sober or Get Pulled over Campaign, which will last through Fat Tuesday. Executive director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, Lt. Col John Leblanc, says law enforcement is publicizing this increase in officers in the hopes that it will deter people from drunk driving…
Mardi Gras celebrations often involve drinking alcohol. Leblanc says because of these celebratory traditions, they want to stress the alternatives to drunk driving…
Last year, there were were nearly 600 fatal and injury crashes and 10 fatalities during the Mardi Gras holiday, and more than half of the deaths involved alcohol. Leblanc says law enforcement increases its presence on the roads during the times of the year when fatal crashes are most prevalent…
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The LSU board of supervisors is taking steps that would pave the way for a statue of Pete Maravich to be erected on campus. An athletics policy currently blocks a statue of Pistol Pete, because he didn’t graduate. Former star LSU basketball player Collis Temple, who integrated the team, says the legacy of Maravich must be preserved…:
The policy would say instead of a degree, 100 credit hours would be required and Maravich would meet that. Board member and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle says it’s terrible that they actually have to debate this issue about the best basketball player ever play at LSU…:
Maravich is still the all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer with 3,667 points scored, an average of 44 points per game. The statue would be placed next to the building named after Maravich, known as the PMAC. Board member Stephen Perry says it’s time to do what should have been done a long time ago…:
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High school principals have voted for select and non-select playoffs in basketball, baseball and softball, just like what’s already in place for football. The vote occurred on the final day of the LHSAA convention. Many Principal Norman Booker says the split needed to be expanded, because private schools have an advantage in how they can enroll their students
The vote was 182-120 for the expanded split. Beekman Charter principal Roy McCoy says nothing good comes out of further dividing the LHSAA…
The split playoffs for basketball, baseball and softball will go into effect for the 2016-17 school year. LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine says he’s heard from many who are against a further expansion of the split…
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