The National Hurricane Center will begin issuing separate storm surge warnings with next year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season. Eric Gill reports…
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Louisiana is below the national average when it comes to percentage of public high school seniors who fill out paperwork to receive financial aid to attend college or a technical school. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The National Hurricane Center will begin issuing separate storm surge warnings with next year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season. Storm surge is often cited as the greatest threat to life and property from a tropical cyclone. Storm Surge Specialist, Jamie Rhome, says this has been many years in the making…
He says the threat from storm surge needed to be put on par with wind and that required a dedicated storm surge warning. Storm surge often strikes at different times and places than a storm’s winds. Rhome says the information in these alerts will be short and to the point…
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Earlier this year, NHC debuted color coded maps showing where and how high water could rise as storms approach land. Rhome says these storm surge alerts will also give you an indication of when the threat could impact an area. He says a storm surge warning is nothing to be taken lightly…
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If Senator David Vitter is elected governor next year, 4th District Representative John Fleming wants to succeed him in the Senate. In a written statement, Fleming says his focus is on serving the residents of the 4th district, but he would be interested in running for the seat Vitter would vacate. Political analyst Elliot Stonecipher says it’s a little early to start speculating on who will fill Vitter’s Senate seat…
If Vitter is successful, a replacement will be appointed by the governor to fill out his Senate term. Stonecipher says as we get deeper into the governor’s race the entire picture will become more clear, but it’s still too soon to get a real grasp on the issue…
Fleming has stated that he’s receiving a lot of encouragement to consider a Senate run in 2016. Stonecipher says there are too many things in the air to make any kind of prediction on whether or not a new Senator will even need to be appointed…
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In a story first reported by LaPolitics.com, Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy may consider a run against Republican incumbent Buddy Caldwell in a race for Attorney General. Editor Jeremy Alford says not only is Kennedy thinking about running for AG, but he’s actively been seeking advice from donors…:
Alford says should Kennedy switch jobs, money won’t be a problem for him. He says next year Kennedy will report that he has $3.5 million dollars in the bank…:
Alford says former Congressman Jeff Landry, also a Republican, could be the wild card in the AG race as sources say he’s already had a few six-figure fundraisers this year. He says given all this combined with a dip in popularity, Caldwell could be in trouble next year…:
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State education Superintendent John White is concerned only 44-percent of public high school seniors fill out the paperwork required to receive federal financial aid to attend college or a technical training school. White says Louisiana students are missing out on millions of dollars in federal assistance
White says all high school seniors should fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which helps determine if a student is eligible for financial aid…
White says he’ll talk with school systems about ways to improve the application rate. He says in some cases, students don’t know about the form and they are missing out on the opportunity to receive federal aid