A study of the gubernatorial primary results show President Trump’s October rally in Lake Charles was not a major factor in pushing Governor Edwards to a run-off. LSU political researcher Dr. Michael Henderson says that naturally leads to a question about the effectiveness of injecting national politics into state races…
Cut 8 (08) “…all about partisanship.”
Trump continues to focus on the Governor’s race with an appearance in Monroe tonight.
The College Football Playoff selection committee has Ohio State number one over LSU. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says its probably better for LSU that they are ranked second…
The selection committee ranked Alabama in third.
Public school report cards are out, and by state metrics, the overall quality is up, but a new federal rating metric, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has identified hundreds of problematic schools.
That’s Superintendent of Education John White who says 571 schools were identified under ESSA as failing certain disadvantaged populations within the school.
Renown Pointe Coupee Parish Pulitzer-nominated author, and former UL Lafayette Writer-in-Residence Ernest Gaines has died. Gaines found mass critical acclaim with his works The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman and A Lesson Before Dying, but in an 2008 interview with Jim Engster, Gaines says he saw a lot of himself in a protagonist from his 1963 short story, The Sky is Gray.
Gaines was 86.