Volunteers flood Louisiana in Summer ’64 to get Black people registered to vote
Louisiana Freedom Summer Volunteers and CORE Staff at the training Center in Plaquemines Parish in 1964.
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Mississippi River mayors came together this week to help river communities evaluate data center proposals, as the facilities continue to rapidly expand across the basin. There are already more than 3,000 active data centers throughout the United States, including in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee. As the need for artificial intelligence and data storage […]
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The Louisiana Department of Health has proposed new, larger contract extensions for the four health insurance companies that will remain a part of the Medicaid program. The deals were shared with state lawmakers Thursday and will follow the exit of two private companies that are leaving the state — and up to 580,000 enrollees — by the end of the year.
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Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new, far-reaching law that dramatically increases surveillance of researchers. Act 505 by Sen. Adam Bass, R-Shreveport, created the Higher Education Research Security Council, which met for the first time this week. Bass sold the legislation […]