8:30 LRN Newscast June 13th

US Senator John Kennedy said on a Lafayette Radio station that Governor John Bel Edwards should resign. Matt Doyle has more…
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Meanwhile in an event hosted by Politico, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise says he will not run for governor in 2019. Scalise is a candidate to become the next Speaker of the House. And tomorrow, marks the one-year anniversary of the shooting of the Republican Congressman from Jefferson Parish.

As it stands now, TOPS students will have to pay 30-percent of their tuition next school year, unless legislators are able to raise revenues to reduce the state’s large budget deficit. Taylor Foundation executive director Doctor James Caillier is concerned some TOPS students will be unable to afford college, if their tuition is not paid for….
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani will be in Lafayette later this month to help Republican Josh Guillory raise cash as the Lafayette lawyer is challenging U-S Representative Clay Higgins in the November election…
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That’s UL Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross.