By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning. Prepare for a steam bath out there today, especially if you’re around Lake Pontchartrain or Lake Maurepas.
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By Greg LaRose
Results from a Louisiana Federation of Teachers’ survey were made public before today’s deadline for state lawmakers to approve the governor’s plan through a virtual vote. It will take two-thirds backing from each legislative chamber for Landry to move $168 million from the Minimum Foundation Program, the system that determines how much state money goes to K-12 schools. The MFP money would provide a $2,000 payment for teachers and $1,000 for support personnel in the coming school year.
Odell Lachney, lower left, then a bus driver in Alexandria, killed Army Pvt. Edward Green in 1944 with this .45 Colt revolver pistol. (Bus stop photo: Miguel E. Paredes Reyes. Lachney and pistol photos: Courtesy of the Lachney family.)
By LSU Manship News Service
“Don’t kill me, I’ll get off,” exclaimed Pvt. Edward Green, a U.S. Army soldier, to bus driver Odell Lachney on March 13, 1944. It was the third public bus that Green, who had lived in New York City, tried to take that evening.
Witness accounts varied about what happened after Green followed Lachney’s order to get off the bus. One passenger said Green had a knife. But other witnesses saw only one weapon, a .45 Colt revolver pistol, as the driver shot Green in the chest at point-blank range. And after a brief inquest the next day, no charges were brought against Lachney.
Änna Farrar documents data center development from her home in Warren County, Missouri. She’s among a growing corps of citizen journalists who are helping fill the void in news coverage on the rapidly expanding industry. (Le Chen)
By Missouri Business Alert
A brigade of residents are battling the secrecy and speed with which mega-sized data centers have spread across the country, fueled by the growth of cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence. According to Stanford University, the United States hosts 5,457 data centers, 10 times more than any other country, with hundreds more on the way.
By Sofia Resnick
On June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, empowering states to outlaw it. Two months later, Mylissa McNeill miscarried. It was the beginning of a health crisis that plagues her to this day and that she blames, at least in part, on hospitals’ reluctance to provide miscarriage care that might run afoul of state abortion bans.
By Robbie Sequeira
For some teenagers across the country, the summer is the first opportunity to gain work experience for their nascent resume. In a handful of states, however, teens who find jobs will find fewer protections under child labor laws. Legislation seeking to roll back child labor protections follows four trends: lowering minimum wages for teen workers; making changes to youth apprenticeships, eliminating youth permits and weakening safeguards for teen child care workers.
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