By Katie Gagliano
Panda Express co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Cherng visited his company’s LSU Student Union location Wednesday morning, inspecting the kitchen and shaking hands with line cooks preparing meals for students.
Cherng was in Baton Rouge for the Raising Cane’s Operators Conference after Cherng’s Panda Restaurant Group inked a deal with the Baton Rouge-based company to franchise the chicken finger restaurant in Hawaii and Alaska.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
By Joby Richard
The state’s TOPS Task Force voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend nine changes in the scholarship program, including one that would reduce awards for lower-performing students while increasing them for high-performing students.
Read the story in The Minden Press-Herald.
By Kaylee Poche and Ryan Noonan
Even though requiring Medicaid recipients to work is one of the few areas in which Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican legislators agree, experts say implementing the rules may not have much of an impact.
House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, proposed Medicaid work requirements in a letter to the governor last week, and Edwards has long said he supported the general concept. The governor’s aides met with Trump administration officials in Washington last month to discuss the details, including what would be considered “work” under the program.
Read the story in NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune.
By Paul Braun
Prosecutors and defense attorneys on a state task force are at odds over the panel’s recommendations of a felony class system but agree that they need to make the proposals work.
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By Brianna Jones-Williams and Martha Ramirez
Louisiana could be one of the first states to have a statewide system to predict flooding.
The Water Institute of the Gulf, a non-profit research institute, told a joint legislative committee Tuesday that it could develop such a system to help to reduce flood damage.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
By Devon Sanders
While Louisiana has a website ranked among the nation’s best in providing access to spending data, Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that they would like to improve it as part of negotiations to solve the state’s impending budget shortfall.
Read the story in The Eunice News.
By Sarah Gamard and Katie Gagliano
House Speaker Taylor Barras did not release revenue proposals on Friday for dealing with a projected $1 billion budget shortfall, but he and Gov. John Bel Edwards are still talking about how they might address the problem.
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By Caleb Greene, LSU Daily Reveille
The chance of rain in Tiger Stadium? Never. The chance of light? Always.
Over 100,000 seats sit unoccupied under the glow of Tiger Stadium’s LED-lit scoreboards every night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. As the cathedral of college football shines bright in the night, many LSU students wonder why the scoreboards are on if no one is there to see it.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
By Ryan Noonan and Kaylee Poche
Republican legislators are expressing concern about their party’s proposal to require Medicaid recipients to a pay a portion of their medical costs because federal rules prohibit Medicaid recipients from being denied treatment due to lack of payment.
Read the story in The Shreveport Times.
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