50th Annual Bayou Classic set to kick off at Superdome on Saturday
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The month of November is jammed full with college football rivalries. Alabama and Auburn play the Iron Bowl. Michigan and Ohio State clash in the Big ... Underdiagnosed and undertreated, young Black males with ADHD get left behind
By Claire Sibonney Contributing Writer (kffhealthnews.org) – As a kid, Wesley Jackson Wade should have been set up to succeed. His father was a novelist and corporate sales director and his mother ... Investigation reveals S&WB employees skipped, falsified drinking water tests
By Matt McBride Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Records the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans sent to the state health department show plant worker Louis Pierre Jr. traveled to five ... La. adopts paid family leave for most state workers
By Julie O’Donoghue Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) – Starting Jan. 1, 70,000 Louisiana state workers will have access to six weeks of paid parental leave following a birth, adoption or foster child placement ... Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s governor-elect is one of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest defenders
By Jake Bittle and Lylla Younes Contributing Writers (Special from Grist via lailluminator.) – Climate change looms larger in Louisiana than it does almost anywhere else in the United States. The state ... State launches website for complaints about state’s child welfare system
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) – Louisiana officials launched a new website Friday that allows the public to file complaints related to the state’s child welfare system or any other agency ... Thousands of Louisianans enrolled in student loan repayment plan
(lailluminator.com) –The Biden administration announced that 5.5 million borrowers nationwide have enrolled in an income-based student loan repayment plan that offers a path toward debt forgiveness. Judge Reese gives green light to Phase III construction
By Nick Chrastil The Lens Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration acted appropriately when it bypassed the City Council to reallocate $32 million of funding for a controversial jail facility, a New Orleans judge ... After court order, ‘abhorrent’ prisoner health care at Angola could soon face federal oversight
By Richard A. Webster Contributing Writer (Veritenews.org) – Health care for thousands of prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola could soon be under the oversight of a federal court, ... Mississippi leaders unite in plea to honor Medgar Evers with Medal of Freedom
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Mississippi’s congressional delegation has called on President Joe Biden to posthumously award civil rights icon Medgar Wiley Evers with the Presidential Medal of ...
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