By Julie O’Donoghue | Senior Reporter
On this day in history in 1962, the British rock band the Rolling Stones performed their first show at a club in London.
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Clouds pass over Tiger Stadium on March 20, 2023, on Louisiana State University’s campus in Baton Rouge. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator)
By Piper Hutchinson
LSU President Wade Rousse and Gov. Jeff Landry are co-hosting an event for LSU athletics’ top donors at the governor’s mansion next month on the financial future of the athletic department.
Lab technician Tarra Hardy arranges vials filled with mosquitoes from across Louisiana. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Elise Plunk
The Louisiana Arbovirus Surveillance Program helps health professionals, entomologists and local mosquito control districts stay apprised on where a disease crops up. Mosquito control organizations at the parish level across the state capture mosquitoes and pack them into vials for the lab.
By Julie O’Donoghue
State Sen. Larry Selders, D-Baton Rouge, died suddenly Tuesday evening after collapsing at his son’s football practice. He leaves behind his wife, Dr. Kendra Michael, and two sons, Larry and Luke.
MORE LOUISIANA NEWS
LSU’s Memorial Tower pictured on March 20, 2023. (Matthew Perschall/Louisiana Illuminator)
LSU has fired its chief financial officer, the vice president in charge of handling sex-based discrimination complaints and its former diversity, equity and inclusion staff in what campus leaders say are cost-reducing layoffs.
New first-quarter data released by the federal government show Louisiana leading much of the country with 2.9% growth in gross domestic product, which measures the total value of the goods and services produced. The figure puts Louisiana behind only five other states and above the national GDP rate of 2.1%.
Louisiana has doubled the state money available for nonprofit groups to preserve and restore public lands of historic, environmental or recreational importance. Louisiana Outdoors Forever was allotted $2 million by the state legislature for the 2027 grant application cycle, which starts this week.
IN NATIONAL NEWS
The National Museum of American History sits on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy National Museum of American History)
President Donald Trump’s latest attack on the Smithsonian Institution represents an attempt to replace a shared American history with his own ideology, according to academics and advocates.
Graduate-level programs such as nursing, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are, for now, considered “professional” degrees by the U.S. Department of Education after a court order in late June halted the agency’s new “professional” definition.
Obamacare marketplace insurers are proposing a median premium increase of 14% for 2027, which would be a double-digit hike for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis of preliminary rate filings.
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