By Julie O’Donoghue | Senior Reporter
On this day in history in 1909, the U.S. Mint produced the first penny featuring President Abraham Lincoln. Now, the 1-cent coin is being phased out.
Gov. Jeff Landry's plan for another round of public school staff stipends from the state has excluded thousands of workers who received them last year. (Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice)
By Julie O’Donoghue
Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to provide another round of temporary pay stipends to public school employees will exclude thousands of positions that previously received the pay bump.
Steam rises from the cooling tower at Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, located just south of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Entergy Corp. photo)
By Wesley Muller
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Louisiana and four other states as potential sites for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. Each would handle the enrichment of radioactive materials, deployment of reactors and the recycling or disposal of nuclear waste.
By Shalina Chatlani
In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.
SOCIAL SCENE
Reporter Piper Hutchinson explains how Division I athletics programs at Louisiana’s public universities will spend their first allotment of of sports gambling tax revenue.
MORE LOUISIANA NEWS
The red-cockaded woodpecker seeks out mature longleaf pine trees to build its home. (Renee Bodine/USFWS)
Conservationists credit the Endangered Species Act for the red-cockaded woodpeckers’ rebound, but they fear new Trump administration policy could erase that progress as well as other efforts to protect threatened plants and animals.
The work of a New Orleans artist, internationally known for his works that celebrate the city’s culture and architecture, is featured on this year’s version of the “I Voted” sticker handed out at Louisiana polling locations.
In an apparent break from the previous administration in Louisiana, at least 121 of Landry’s employees — from the most senior aides to the most junior temps — have signed a strict confidentiality agreement with the governor’s office binding them to secrecy about what they learn on the job, records obtained by the Gulf States Newsroom and Type Investigations show.
IN NATIONAL NEWS
Salad greens for sale at a bodega in Astoria, New York. (Photo by Shalina Chatlani/ Stateline)
Food safety leaders across the U.S. are raising alarms over federal cuts they say have made it harder to detect and stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, such as the recent outbreaks of cyclospora, which has sickened thousands in dozens of states.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not planning an aggressive campaign at voting sites during the upcoming midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday
Anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana and elsewhere have received hundreds of millions of dollars just in the past few years. Yet there is little oversight — not only on how they’re spending the money, but also on how they’re caring for patients.
COMMENTARY
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