The Manning Passing Academy to host inaugural football camp for women in Thibodaux next month. Connor Ferrill has the story…
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LSU and Northwestern State are heading to the same NCAA Baseball Regional. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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GOP House Caucus Chairman Lance Harris’s tax bill passes the House and is headed to the Senate. Matt Doyle has more.
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If your home was damaged in the 2016 floods, there’s a July 20th deadline to complete a survey that starts the process for aid through the Restore Louisiana Homeowner Assistance Program. Governor John Bel Edwards says there are a few ways flood victims can complete the survey
Housing Assistance Centers in Lafayette, Hammond, Monroe and Baton Rouge are open during regular business hours to help individuals complete the survey. About 50-thousand homeowners have completed the survey. Edwards believes there are flood victims who haven’t, because they received S-B-A loans and are ineligible for the Restore Louisiana program, because it would be a duplication of benefits…
Edwards says if Congress makes any changes to the regulations on who could be available for assistance through the federally-funded homeowner assistance program, flood victims will not be eligible if they haven’t filled out the survey…
Nearly 11-thousand eligible homeowners have been offered grant awards totaling 285-million dollars.
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The Manning Passing Academy will host its first ever clinic and camp for girls. The Manning family has been running the premier football camp for high school boys for over two decades. Camp organizer Jeff Hawkins says he the Manning family were inspired by a women’s football advocate in Utah…
The first night will feature speakers discussing strategies in football, NCAA eligibility, and will wrap with inspirational speeches, while the second day focuses on field work. Hawkins has been fighting to get women involved in football and says recent results have been promising.
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Hawkins says the industry needs to be getting more young women in on the ground floor.
The camp is open to girls between 8th and 12th grade and all women, June 25th and June 26th on the Nicholls State campus.
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LSU and Northwestern State are both headed to the Pacific Northwest as they are in the Corvallis Regional, hosted by third national seeded Oregon State. The Tigers will open the regional playing San Diego State. The Aztecs have won the Mountain West Conference five times in the last years, but LSU pitcher Zack Hess says after playing well in the SEC Tournament they are more confident than ever..
If LSU beats San Diego State, they’ll likely play Oregon State in a winner’s bracket game on Saturday. The Beavers have won 100 games over the last two seasons. Coach Paul Mainieri says they knew they’d face tough competition…
Southland Tournament champion Northwestern State is in an NCAA Regional for the first time since 2005. Coach Bobby Barbier’s team will face the number three national seed Oregon State on Friday night at 9:30….
Barbier says it’s great LSU and Northwestern State are in the same regional…
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GOP House Caucus Chairman Lance Harris’s tax bill that raises 360 million dollars of the 648 million dollar budget shortfall passed the House after a weekend of deliberations that got the legislation 76 votes, 6 more than it needed to make it to Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. Harris, who Friday said this tax bill is designed to cut government, celebrated the passage.
The bill renews a third of the expiring penny sales tax, and eliminates some sales tax breaks. Harris says that would require 126 million dollars in budget cuts, but Governor Edwards’ administration says the cuts would be much closer to 300 million.
Harris says over the weekend he heard from a lot of angry constituents who were concerned about the effects of the tax bill. The Alexandria Republican says that some of those responses gave him a second wind.
Governor John Bel Edwards called for a tax bill that would have raised more revenue by renewing a half of the expiring penny sales tax.
On Friday Harris said the reduction in government spending was necessary due to a lagging state economy. Harris says the bill was a reflection of his values.
The Governor’s office says Edwards has not decided whether or not he would veto any budget that included those kinds of cuts if it made it to his desk.
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