By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
On this day in 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was created.
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By Julie O’Donoghue
Crawfish processing plants in Louisiana are at a diminished capacity this year because they haven’t been able to get as many visas for the foreign guest workers, according to state Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain. Gov. Jeff Landry said it was the responsibility of Louisiana’s congressional members to address the foreign worker problem.
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By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Louisiana is one of at least eight states that has redirected millions of dollars from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers, which are often church-sponsored facilities with minimal medical staffing.
By Julie O’Donoghue
Gov. Jeff Landry said he hopes to convince Louisiana Senate President Cameron Henry, to spend more state money on a private education voucher program. Henry has emerged as the most prominent skeptic of Landry’s signature education initiative, LA GATOR, which would greatly expand the amount of public funding going toward private education expenses.
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Louisiana officials want to expand black bear hunting grounds to encompass wildlife management areas and private lands across the entire state. Black bear hunting has only been legal for the past two years in Louisiana after being banned in 1987.
The doctors in charge of LSU’s two medical schools could be replaced following faculty complaints that university leaders acted hastily in appointing them to their jobs. LSU Chancellor Jim Dalton said last week he plans on conducting searches for the health sciences centers in Shreveport and New Orleans.
Louisiana officials have selected 19 ready-made construction sites across the state for $140 million in infrastructure investment to entice large-scale development. The locations were chosen based largely on the potential return on investment, geographic diversity and how soon the state would see direct revenue from the developments.
IN NATIONAL NEWS
Wicomico County, Maryland, Sheriff Mike Lewis, spoke last month in Annapolis against a Maryland measure barring local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities through the 287(g) program. The sheriffs’ visit to the state capital came a week after Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed a law that restricts 287(g) agreements between local police and federal immigration officials. (William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)
President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan depends heavily on cooperation from state and local politicians and law enforcement officials, according to experts. But as the number of partnerships climb, statehouses are split over whether local police should be in the immigration business at all.
Amid a slew of proposed changes scaling the federal government’s role in broadening assistance in federal rental programs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to rescind a 2024 regulation requiring public housing agencies and certain federally subsidized landlords to give 30 days’ notice before filing for eviction based on unpaid rent.
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the midterm elections.
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