Falling oil prices has resulted in Lafayette-based Stone Energy Company to announce it will cut spending this year by more than half of what they spent in 2014. Gifford Briggs, vice president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, says Stone Energy is not the only oil company scaling back..
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The price of oil is trading at 47-dollars a barrel today.

According to the U-S Department of Health and Human Services, 137-thousand people in Louisiana have signed up for health insurance through the federal marketplace. Open enrollment ends on February 15th. More information can be found at health-care-dot-gov.

During an interview on Fox News today, Governor Bobby Jindal was asked about the state’s budget shortfall that has been pegged at one-point-four billion dollars. Jindal explained why the state is in this situation….
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Jindal also continued to make the case that there are “No Go Zones” in European neighborhoods and expressed concern that “No Go Zones” could pop up in the US if the federal government doesn’t take steps to make sure immigrants embrace America’s culture.

LSU football received a verbal commitment from one of the top high school prospects in the state, Riverdale defensive back Donte Jackson, who had five interceptions last season The 2015 recruiting class also features a couple of other highly thought of defensive backs in Kevin Toliver and Xavier Lewis.