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Ready for cooler temperatures? You can start planning your fall garden now
By Heather
Kirk-Ballard
LSU AgCenter
horticulturist
As LSU strategy chief leaves university, strategic plan remains unfinished
Almost two years after he came to LSU as the newly-created vice president for strategy, Mark Bieger has left the university, leaving LSU’s strategic plan unfinished.
Louisiana removes more than 50,000 people from Medicaid
Louisiana removed 50,600 people from government-funded Medicaid health insurance over the last few weeks, as part of the program’s massive disenrollment process nationwide. But the decision to drop all those people may not be permanent.
Shooting exacted a toll on victim’s family, FBI agents
Second of two stories
Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and was seven months pregnant with her second child when her husband, Milton X Scott, was shot and killed outside their home in 1973 by FBI agents attempting to arrest him.
UL Lafayette engineering students make a splash
Boats of all shapes and sizes – from some of the world’s largest, most-luxurious yachts to sleek powerboats – cruise the waters near the Monaco Yacht Club on the Mediterranean Sea.
Assessing tree damage is crucial in preventing property damage during hurricane season
We are well into hurricane season here in Louisiana, but we still have a long time ahead of us. The hurricane season officially begins each summer on June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30.
988 Lifeline volume grows since launch a year ago
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health’s Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) is celebrating the anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline this week with a focus on growth, increased capacity and the lives that are being changed wi
Plugging abandoned inactive Gulf of Mexico oil and gas wells could cost $30B
A forthcoming paper in the journal Nature Energy estimates that the cost to plug and abandon the 14,000 unplugged, non-producing oil and gas wells in U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore waters, inland waters, and wetlands is $30 billion.
Stay cool, stay green and beat the heat with these tips
As the scorching summer sun takes center stage, it’s not just us that feel the heat. Our leafy friends also need some extra TLC during these sweltering months.