Senator Bill Cassidy has yet another challenger to fend off in next year’s Republican primary. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Brian Kelly era is over at LSU. Jeff Palermo reports on why it didn’t work and what happens next…
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Senator Bill Cassidy has yet another challenger for his U.S. Senate seat, as State Representative Julie Emerson has announced her candidacy. The Carencro Republican introduced herself to statewide voters in a four-minute video.
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Emerson says as chairwoman of the State House Ways and Means Committee, she led the effort to reform Louisiana’s tax code.
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Emerson heavily touted her conservative credentials in her introductory video.
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Emerson’s entrance in the race now gives Cassidy five prominent challengers in the Republican primary, who also include John Fleming, Blake Miguez, Eric Skrmetta and Kathy Seiden. So far, no Democrats have announced his or her candidacy.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics says overall prices rose by three-tenths of a percent from August to September; when highly variable items like food and energy are excluded, prices rose by two-tenths of a percent. Stephen Kates, a financial analyst at Bankrate, says both of those figures came in lower than expected.
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While inflation has slowed down last month, it is still up year-over-year. B-L-S says prices are three-percent higher than last year. Kates says that’s higher than normal.
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Kates says the way this year started, the three-percent year-over-year inflation is much better than what analysts had been bracing for.
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Kates says due to the federal government shutdown, no data is being collected for October, so the earliest we will get the next C-P-I report will be December.
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Brian Kelly is out as head coach of the LSU Tigers. Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne says the situation quickly unraveled on Sunday, following the Tigers embarrassing loss to Texas A&M. Horne says on Sunday athletics director Scott Woodward demanded that coach Kelly make changes to his coaching staff…
Kelly’s firing comes in year four of a ten-year contract. His dismissal means LSU owes Kelly roughly 54-million dollars. In a statement, LSU says terms of the separation are still being negotiated. Horne says LSU is looking at how the cost of that buyout can be reduced…
The Tigers are 5-3 on the season. During Kelly’s time as the head coach of LSU, he went 34-14 and 19-10 in the SEC. Horne says Kelly did not win at a high enough level and his CEO approach of coaching the team resulted in him being late to make necessary changes…
LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloan has also been fired. Longtime assistant Frank Wilson will serve as the interim head coach. Tight ends coach and run game coordinator Alex Atikins will take over as LSU’s playcaller.
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Despite the ongoing government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reopened all Farm Service Agency offices across the country, including here in Louisiana. While visiting Amite late last week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the move is to ensure that the shutdown does not interrupt America’s food supply.
Rollins says she’s glad that F-S-A offices are reopening to serve America’s farmers.
Rollins says the USDA will soon announce a plan to provide additional relief to American farmers.