By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Here’s what you’ll be talking about around the water cooler this Friday.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies Wednesday before the U.S, House Judiciary Committee. She was removed from the post the next day. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
By Greg LaRose
Gov. Jeff Landry quickly came to the defense of Kristi Noem after President Donald Trump announced her removal as Homeland Security secretary. The governor has long referenced his friendship with Noem, who has been to Louisiana multiple times before and since Landry became the state’s leader.
A view from outside Tiger Stadium. (Matthew Perschall/LAI)
By Piper Hutchinson
As LSU sports barely breaks even financially, difficult times potentially lie ahead for both its athletic teams and academic programs. The current fiscal year is the first under new revenue-sharing rules. The NCAA now requires Division I schools to distribute up to 22% of their intake annually, which comes to about $20.5 million for top-earning programs like LSU’s.
A supply room at Stanton Healthcare, a crisis pregnancy center in Meridian, Idaho. (Otto Kitsinger for States Newsroom)
By Stateline
States Newsroom spoke with dozens of doctors, patients and people who found themselves in crisis pregnancy centers, which have been a pillar of the anti-abortion movement. Largely staffed by volunteers or part-time workers, these centers offer limited services related to pregnancy and are guided by a religious mission to stop people from considering abortion.
By Greg LaRose
The Louisiana expansion for Shintech comes roughly 30 years after the company first pitched a PVC manufacturing facility in St. James Parish. Opposition to the proposed facility’s feared environmental and health impacts stifled those plans. The deal comes with a package of incentives from the state.
COMMENTARY
By Andrea Hagan
The governor sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education asking it to expand its investigation into prohibited diversity, equity and inclusion policy to every public college and university in the state. Louisiana did not build its universities for everyone. That is not opinion; it is written into the history of segregation, court orders and the very locations of our campuses.
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