A study of the gubernatorial primary results shows President Trump’s October rally in Lake Charles may have only had a slight boost at the ballot box. LSU political researcher Dr. Michael Henderson says Trump may have only moved the needle in the Lake Charles region by about 2%, which resulted in an additional 2,000 GOP votes versus 2015.
Cut 6 (11) “…avoid a runoff.”
Trump continues to focus on the Governor’s race with an appearance in Monroe tonight.
Renown Pointe Coupee Parish Pulitzer-nominated author, and former UL Lafayette Writer-in-Residence Ernest Gaines passed away yesterday at 86. Gaines would eventually move to California in his teens because African Americans did not have a high school at that time in Pointe Coupee. Gaines returned home in the 80s after living in San Francisco.
The high cost of medical marijuana has advocates concerns it’s becoming a treatment exclusively for the rich. Matt Doyle has the story.