By Piper Hutchinson | Reporter
Didja know? On this date in 1965, Gatorade was tested for the first time in a matchup between the Florida Gators and the LSU Tigers. Satiate your thirst for news with today’s headlines.
Louisiana Tech’s Trey Baldwin and Levi Bell play against Southeastern Louisiana University at Joe Aillet Stadium on Sept. 11, 2021. Tech won 45-42. (Emerald McIntyre/Louisiana Tech University)
By Piper Hutchinson
The University of Louisiana System has hired a consulting firm to examine its athletics budget problems and recommend solutions, including whether its member schools should leave the NCAA Division I ranks.
An excavator clears out earth covering a broken water line near Colfax in Grant Parish. (Remi Tallo/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Elise Plunk
Louisiana law requires excavators and demolition teams to call before digging to avoid hitting and damaging utility lines, but it didn’t prevent more than 5,000 mishaps last year. The group that’s keeping count say they can result in far worse than just service outages.
Participants take part in an HIV/AIDS awareness event held by Big Bend Cares in Tallahassee, Florida. (Bob O’Lary/Courtesy of Big Bend Cares)
By Nada Hassanein
The Trump administration has altered how the federal government distributes its resources to prevent HIV, leaving community groups without the dollars on which they have long depended. The funding change represents a departure from the decades-old strategy favored by most public health organizations.
By Natalie McLendon | The Current
With a slew of project proposed and in progress, Cameron Parish officials are considering the revival of an industrial review board that would have a say in which developments are provided tax incentives. Doing so would move away from Gov. Jeff Landry’s efforts to streamline the business incentive process.
COMMENTARY
By Greg LaRose
Ominous clouds hung over a White House meeting Trump hosted this week with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and AI industry executives. Anyone with hopes the tech titans would emerge contrite and careful after the meeting saw them dashed that same day when Trump issued an executive order to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence.”
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