A new poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics show that Governor Bobby Jindal’s numbers have slipped among Iowa Republican voters. Scott Carwile reports…
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State Treasurer John Kennedy says Louisiana is in danger of seeing a drop in its credit score. Michelle Southern reports.
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The man who led the military’s response in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina says he is thinking about running for governor. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A new poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics show that Governor Bobby Jindal’s numbers have slipped among Iowa Republican voters. Jindal got two-percent of respondents when asked for their first choice in a presidential candidate. Pollster Ann Selzer says it’s too early to count Jindal out, but he does have some work to do…
Jindal also received two-percent when respondents were asked for their second choice. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker lead the poll with 16-percent, followed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul with 15-percent. The poll also showed the governor’s unfavorable numbers rose to 20-percent. Selzer says it’s important for Jindal to speak in a distinctive voice…
Cut 5 (10) “a different thing”
Jindal has yet to officially announce his candidacy for president. Selzer says, if he is going to run, it would probably benefit Jindal to make a few more trips to Iowa to make more of an impression on voters there…
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State Treasurer John Kennedy says Louisiana is in danger of seeing a drop in its credit score. Moody’s Investors Service warned that the state’s recent reductions in revenue estimates are a “credit negative.” Kennedy says states have credit ratings just as individuals do…:
Kennedy says Moody’s is one of the major credit rating agencies and they’ve essentially fired a warning shot at Louisiana saying that if we don’t get our financial house in order, they will downgrade us from stable to negative. He says they point out 7 years we’ve spent more money than we took in…:
Cut 8 (10) “never materialized”
Kennedy says the report pointed to Louisiana’s multiple fiscal challenges including the $330 million dollar revenue forecast drop, next year’s $1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall, current mid-year budget cuts and more. But he says it’s not inevitable that we’ll be downgraded, but it’ll be up to the legislature to make some changes next session…:
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Retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore wants to see Louisiana implement an air monitoring system, paid for by private companies. Honore, who was in charge of military relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, now leads a coalition of environmental groups called the Green Army. Honore says the state has 150 chemical plants and no system in place to monitor what they put into the air…
The Green Army proposes a series of sensors to be installed outside of chemical plants, monitoring the air quality. Honore says if something goes wrong, the sensors can notify nearby residents. He says the current method is not trust worthy…
Honore says he’ll seek to have the state legislature pass what he calls a 21st Century Clean Air Bill. He says the automated air monitoring system should be paid for by the energy industry
cut 12 (10) “sittin out there”
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The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office says a teacher is behind bars for allegedly having inappropriate sexual relations with a juvenile student. Lt Tommy Carnline says the complaint came from the Glenmora Police Department who asked their deputies to investigate 28-year-old Donald Gene Parker III…:
Cut 13 (08) “juvenile student”
Parker is a teacher at Glenmora High School according to their website. Carnline says as soon as the person made the complaint to the police department, Parker found out about it somehow…:
Carnline says Parker faces many charges including 1 count of computer aided solicitation of a minor, 1 count of pornography involving juveniles, 1 count of indecent behavior with juveniles, 2 counts of obstruction of justice and 3 counts of intimidating a witness. He says their detectives obtained a warrant to search Parker’s home…:
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LSU shortstop Alex Bregman is on the Baseball America’s preseason All-American first team. Bregman hit .316 with 16 doubles six home runs and 47 RBIs. Bregman hopes to put up better offensive numbers this season, because this year’s baseballs have lower seams on them
Bregman and the Tigers missed out on the College World Series last season, because they were upset by Houston in the Regionals. He says the team is very determined to get back to Omaha this year…
LSU begins its regular season on February 13th against Kansas. The Tigers will have an experienced line-up, but they’ll be young on the mound. Bregman likes what he sees from the young pitchers
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