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Lawmakers approve management contract renewal to roll out LA GATOR

5 days ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) − The Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approved on Friday a nearly $2 million contract extension with education technology company Odyssey to continue managing the state’s new LA Giving All True Opportunity to RISE scholarship program through June 2026.
Army Corps of Engineers highlights progress on flood protection projects

1 week ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) – Louisiana officials are moving forward on several major flood protection projects as the state prepares for hurricane season and addresses long-term flood risks. Col. Cullen Jones is the commander and district engineer of the New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He told lawmakers that home elevation work is ramping up across southwest Louisiana. “We’ve just got four more design packages, one of which is ready for construction,” Jones said.
Louisiana legislators warn of the consequences of a Medicaid cut

1 week ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) − On the final day of Louisiana’s legislative session, lawmakers from both chambers passed resolutions urging Congress to rethink proposed Medicaid cuts, warning that a sharp reduction in federal support would devastate the state’s health care system and trigger a special legislative session to plug a massive budget hole.
Lawmakers wrap session with major reforms to workforce benefits, insurance

1 week ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) – Louisiana lawmakers concluded a consequential legislative session this week, sending dozens of bills to Gov. Jeff Landry’s desk and advancing a range of proposals that aim to reshape the state’s economic development strategy, health policies, workforce training system and insurance regulations. While some hot-button bills stalled or were vetoed, supporters across the political spectrum are declaring the 2025 session a milestone for structural reform.
ABC Now Stands For "Amazingly Biased Correspondents"

2 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Jeff Crouere

Thankfully, in recent years, Americans have been leaving the three legacy broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, and finding their news on other outlets. Fortunately, with the advent of the Internet, Americans have other sources for credible information and do not have to rely on the broadcast networks, which produce news programs littered with liberal propaganda. There is voluminous evidence of liberal bias on every broadcast network.
Louisiana’s nuclear plants struggled for stability long before May blackout

3 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) − Louisiana’s two nuclear power plants, which federal regulators rated as performing “within the expected range” in 2023, have spent much of the past year operating below full capacity or not operating at all. At the Waterford 3 nuclear plant in St. Charles Parish, owned and operated by Entergy, the reactor has operated significantly lower than its generation capacity for much of the last year, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission data.
Judge rules Texas law allowing in-state tuition for illegal noncitizens illegal

3 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Bethany Blankley

(The Center Square) – A federal judge in north Texas quickly ruled in favor of the Trump administration, which sued Texas on Wednesday arguing a law allowing illegal foreign nationals to receive in-state tuition is illegal. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor from the Northern District of Texas Wichita Falls Division in a three-paragraph ruling – issued just hours after the lawsuit was filed – granted the federal government’s motion and declared sections of the state law in question illegal.
MARSH MAN MASSON: Is The State Seeing A MAJOR Flounder Boom?

3 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Todd Masson

I’ve caught at least one flounder on five consecutive trips, and on some of those, I caught multiple flounder. So what’s going on? Are Louisiana’s flounder stocks spring-boarding back after years of decline? Is the annual moratorium in the fall having a significant impact? Or I have I just gotten really lucky lately? Well, to try to gain an answer to that, let’s look at the data.
MISO addresses New Orleans outage, defends decision

3 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Nolan McKendry

(The Center Square) − The Midcontinent Independent System Operator issued a formal statement Tuesday following a presentation to the New Orleans City Council, defending its decision to order a load shed that left nearly 100,000 southeast Louisiana residents without power on May 25. Appearing before the Council’s utility committee, MISO executives said the emergency outage − known as a load shed − was a last-resort action to prevent a wider collapse of the electric grid.
CROUERE: Democrats Fixate on Trump, But Ignore the Voters

3 weeks ago | thehayride.com | Jeff Crouere

In a CNN interview on Sunday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) boasted that the Democrats “will take back control of the House of Representatives” in the 2026 midterm election. History shows that his prediction is likely to occur.