A former caretaker of LSU’s mascot Mike wrote a letter to a Baton Rouge newspaper expressing concern over the fact that the live Tiger doesn’t go to games anymore. Michelle Southern reports.
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A new statewide poll by MarblePoint Polling shows support for higher cigarette taxes, but residents do not approve of Common Core or Governor Bobby Jindal’s job performance. Eric Gill reports…
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A Natchitoches man is under arrest for simple battery and hate crimes after an incident at a local business. 35-year-old Roderick Rachal was booked into the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center. Police Captain Chris Payne says responding officers spoke to a female victim that said a man she did not know grabbed her buttocks…
Payne says Rachal is charged with simple battery in this case. He says as officers looked into this case, they discovered this wasn’t the first time Rachal had done this…
He says Rachal had been arrested multiple times in the past for similar incidents. Payne says officers discovered that in each case, Rachal targeted a specific race and gender… (Because Rachal targeted a specific race and gender, he was additionally charged with hate crimes.)
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A former caretaker of LSU’s mascot Mike wrote a letter to a Baton Rouge newspaper expressing concern over the live Tiger’s increasing lack of appearing in the stadium at home football games. Mike the VI did not go to a single contest last season. Paul Marks Jr. says he was responsible for Mike III from 1963-1965 and they never had a problem getting him to games.
He says the difference is that they altered his feeding patterns…:
The comments were made on The Jim Engster Show. Marks Jr. says he truly hopes that a new satisfactory method can be developed to bring Mike back to Tiger Stadium so that fans can enjoy his splendor. He says they would not feed Mike III on Friday’s to get him ready for Saturday night…:
CUT 7 (12) “when he got to the stadium”
Last November Mike VI made a post on Facebook letting fans know that his trainers practice with him all summer to get into the cage, but he refuses to do so on gameday and is not food motivated even if he is fasted on Friday night. Marks Jr. says back in his day their Mike wasn’t in a 5 million dollar enclosure the way Mike VI is…:
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A new statewide poll shows support for higher cigarette taxes, but residents do not approve of Common Core or Governor Bobby Jindal’s job performance. The survey found that 56-percent of residents support an increase in the state’s cigarette tax. La-Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford thinks the tax will pass this legislative session…
The automated phone survey of over 1000 residents was conducted by MarblePoint Polling. The poll shows that 54-percent of respondents disapprove of the Common Core education standards. Alford says this will be a passionate issue in the upcoming legislative session…
As far as Governor Jindal’s approval numbers go, only 28-percent of respondents gave him a positive rating. Alford says there’s no doubt that Jindal is not nearly as popular as he was seven years ago, but he’s not convinced that the governor’s numbers have dropped to that extent…
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Governor Bobby Jindal announces a plan to remove Common Core from Louisiana’s public schools and replace it with educational standards and a standardized test developed by Louisiana teachers and parents. Jindal says the plan will be presented to lawmakers in the legislative session that begins next month…
Jindal’s announcement comes as 316-thousand students are taking the Common Core tests. The governor says his 10-year-old son, is like many children, who are frustrated with the “Fuzzy Math” questions on the test
There are three different bills that make up Jindal’s plan to replace Common Core. He made the announcement as a several lawmakers stood by his side, including Alexandria Representative Lance Harris…