Louisiana Radio network news, I’m Matt Doyle
The governor presented a doomsday budget that includes an 80 percent cut in funding for TOPS. On top of TOPS, The higher education budget included an additional 26-million dollar cut. Higher Ed dodged budget cuts last year, and President of the University of Louisiana System Dr. Jim Hendersonsays it had a big impact…
Henderson says cutting TOPS would be a betrayal of hard working students.
Congressman Clay Higgins is aiming to pass a bill that would bolster existing immigration laws. The St. Landry Parish Republican says the Obama Administration created a bureaucratic situation that is keeping the Trump Administration from hiring more boarder guards.
Higgins would like 10,000 more boarder agents.
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The recent cold snap could cause the strawberry crop to be pushed back a couple of weeks. There are nine to 12 commercial growers in Tangipahoa Parish. Whitney Wallace from the LSU Ag Center says those farmers took extra precautions during the brutally cold weather and expects the crop should come through just fine…
She says everything should be fine for the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival.
A thirty-three-year-old Livingston Parish teacher was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Ashley Meyer is an Albany High School teacher, and has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
Tulane Law School graduate Wendy Vitter was nominated by President Donald Trump today to fill a federal judgeship in New Orleans. Vitter was the campaign manager for her husband David Vitter’s three US House elections, and has served as general counsel for the Archdiocese of New Orleans since 2012.