The Louisiana Democratic Party is slamming Governor Bobby Jindal for making continued travel stops around the country. Michelle Southern reports…:
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We’re now 4 weeks away from the November elections and political voters can expect to see and hear a lot more from the candidates. Scott Carwile reports.
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LSU Coach Les Miles has faith the Tigers will be able to turn their season around, but who will start at quarterback is a question mark. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The US Department of Agriculture announces a Colorado based biofuels company receives a $91 million loan guarantee to build a processing plant in Alexandria. Cool Planet makes green fuels and biochar. CEO Howard Janzen says this funding is tremendously important…
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Biofuels are seen as critical to the country’s energy future. Cool Planet broke ground on the Alexandria facility earlier this year. Janzen says their company not only manufactures biofuel, but also a product called “Cool Terra”…
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The company expects to start construction on the facility in early 2016. This facility will not only create construction jobs for central Louisiana, but also jobs in the processing of Cool Planet’s products. Janzen is thankful for the welcome his company has received from the state…
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The Louisiana Democratic party is bashing Governor Bobby Jindal over his speech yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. calling for a strengthening of the US military. Chairwoman Senator Karen Carter Peterson says Jindal needs to stop putting so much effort into matters outside of Louisiana…:
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Peterson says even though his own constituents think he shouldn’t run for president, Jindal keeps courting D.C. insiders. She says instead of increasing federal military funding, she’d rather hear Jindal explain why he cut hundreds of millions of Louisiana’s higher education dollars…:
Cut 8 (05) “Louisiana’s families”
Peterson says Jindal should be addressing the devastating effect the higher ed cuts have had on our economy. Jindal is in South Carolina today to give a similar speech he did Monday and Peterson says these travel habits are extremely disappointing…:
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We’re now 4 weeks away from the November elections and political voters can expect to see and hear a lot more from the candidates. LSU political research director Michael Henderson says the “air war” will continue over radio and television. He says in the US Senate race, Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy will keep tying Senator Mary Landrieu to President Obama…:
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Henderson says candidates will be putting a lot more resources toward the “ground game” here over the next couple of weeks to mobilize core voters to get out the vote. He says in the 5th & 6th Congressional District races, it’ll be all about making it to the runoff…:
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Henderson says the negative campaigning is going to ramp up over the next few weeks as will knocking on doors. He says one of the biggest issues for some of the candidates is getting their name out there..:
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The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office says a woman is under arrest on animal cruelty charges for allegedly trying to throw puppies away. They say cops were called by a witness saying they’d seen the woman, who was wearing a blue dress, commit the crime…:
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Carnline says deputies responded and made contact with 31-year-old Christie Lasyone of Ball and discovered she had an outstanding contempt of court warrant on her…:
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Carnline says a deputy rescued the puppies and returned them to their rightful owner. He says they have no idea why this woman was trying to dump puppies but she was arrested and charged with three counts of cruelty to animals…:
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LSU Coach Les Miles is holding off on naming a starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Florida. Miles says he’ll let Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris battle for that opportunity during practice this week. Despite only scoring seven points in a loss to Auburn, Miles believes the offense is not that far away from getting on track. He says the biggest thing they need to do is relax
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Miles is also optimistic the defense can turn things around after giving up 11-hundred yards of offense in two SEC games. He says they just need to get fix some technical issues, which should produce better results
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