The ACLU of Louisiana has responded to the latest Crime Stoppers viral video by St. Landry Parish’s Captain Clay Higgins. Higgins is looking for wanted members of the Gremlins Gang. He says they each have a $2500 bounty on their head. ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director Marjorie Esman has a problem with that…:
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Higgins video had nearly 14 million views in just two days
Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird,” has died at the age of 89. Head of Special Collections at LSU Jessica Lacher Feldman says Lee’s death is the end of an era. Feldman worked at the University of Alabama, where Lee spoke to students once a year. Feldman was Lee’s handler when she visited and says Lee’s novel resonated deeply with many people.
Funeral services for Lee have not been announced.
A new poll from Invest in a Healthy Louisiana and Public Opinion Strategies finds increasing the tobacco tax is favored by seven out of 10 voters. The Invest in a Healthy Louisiana Coalition is advocating a $1.25 per pack increase in the tobacco tax. So far, only a 22-cent increase has been discussed by the legislature. Pollster Glen Bolger says the increase is popular across party lines…
Increasing the cigarette tax by $1.25 would raise more than $200 million a year for Louisiana.
Dozens of students marched to the state capitol in efforts to protest the proposed cuts to higher education to offset the massive budget deficit. A graduate of Nicholls State University and LSU, Peter Jenkins, attended the Save our Schools rally to make legislators pay attention and stop these drastic measures…
Jenkins says they want the legislators to do what they need to do to save higher education.