Last Wednesday night, the NFL released the schedules for their 2021 season. I will highlight some top games to circle this season, as well as post the entire schedule for the Saints and Cowboys.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) announced airports in 16 parishes will receive $9,843,973 in federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for taxiway construction, pavement rehabilitation, hangar construction and more. Airports in Shreveport, Morehouse, Concordia, Acadia, Avoyelles, Jefferson Davis, Jackson, Sabine, Natchitoches, Calcasieu, Webster, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Caddo and De Soto parishes will benefit directly from these grants.
Bossier City Council President David Montgomery, At-Large, announces that the City Council is seeking resumes from citizens who are interested in serving as an interim council member for District 1.
Louisiana House Bill 7 seems like a no-brainer. It will treat diapers and women’s period products as the necessary items that they are and remove the state sales tax on these items. HB7 will leave a small, estimated $11 million hole in the state budget. Louisiana does not generally collect sales taxes on necessities. Medications, for instance, are not taxed in Louisiana.
One of several Caddo Parish School Board’s closed facilities is Broadmoor’s Arthur Circle Elementary School.
In Louisiana, much like the rest of the country, the CO- VID-19 pandemic resulted in drastic decreases in school enrollment. According to a recent report, public school enrollment dropped by 2.3%, and nearly half of the decrease is among PreK and kindergarten students. For the youngest learners, in their most crucial learning years, this loss in early learning can mean serious, long-term consequences.
Bossier City Council meetings have a well-deserved reputation of being closed-shop meetings.
The 30-Second Read team today offers tips for hoarders. And, wow, do we need them. Because the survival instincts we developed on the savannas of prehistory are, today, often laughable and occasionally deadly.
Thanks to a second grant from the Noel Foundation, the LSU Health Shreveport School of Allied Health Professions is now offering advanced educational opportunities for entry-level professional and residency education programs. This advanced technology delivered through the Bioness BITS Balance System provides students the opportunity to have simulation and hands on experience with the most advanced technology available in real time.
Reading is likely the most studied aspect of human learning. Louisiana has been losing ground to our neighbors in Mississippi since 2013 when their legislators funded the transition to teaching what is called “Scientific Reading.” That name alone would intimidate some people away from the opportunity to teach our youngest learners the right way to read and comprehend what they have read. You should know that the roots of Scientific Reading come from 1986 when the concept was then called “the simple view of reading.” I like “simple” a lot more than “scientific,” but what I really like is that Mississippi has raised their fourth-grade reading performance from the bottom of the rankings to the middle of the list in only six years!
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