Get Caught Up: What happens after LCG’s red flag audit
After a troubling financial assessment, where will investigators go next?
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Lafayette is running out of starter homes
With an aging stock of existing homes, and effectively no new construction below $200,000, Lafayette’s first-time homebuyers are being shut out of the market.
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The bill is much broader than a similar measure passed in Florida and would apply to all K-12 grades, whereas Florida’s law applies only through the third grade. The proposal applies to any school employee or volunteer, and it covers discussions in the classroom and during any extracurricular activity.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
Violating the zone of protection would be a misdemeanor, and violators could be fined $500, be sentenced to 60 days in jail or both.
Source: Verite
Under the proposal, school employees or volunteers would not be allowed to use a student’s preferred pronoun that differs from the gender listed on their birth certificate unless a student’s parent provides written permission. Even if a parent does provide permission, the bill would allow a teacher to ignore it based on religious or moral reasons.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
It’s the latest in a series of studies listing Louisiana as the worst or among the worst states in key quality of life areas.
Last week a WalletHub study concluded Louisiana is the worst state in America for working mothers, showing moms here are shortchanged on everything from pay to childcare. America’s Health Ratings from the United Health Foundation lists Louisiana as the worst state for women and children’s health.
Source: The Advertiser
New listings, meanwhile, in Lafayette Parish remain 23.8% behind last year’s total, which would put more buyers competing for a smaller pool of properties and keep prices from falling. This year’s total is on pace to be the lowest yearly total since at least 2018.
Source: The Advocate
Listen: How does Lafayette work, anyway?
Have you ever wondered how our consolidated government actually works? In our new podcast miniseries, Lafayette 101, we give you the civics lesson you never knew you needed.
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A prosecutor from the Lafayette area accused in a hit and run on False River is scheduled to go to trial this fall as questions loom about the delay.A trial date is set for Chris Richard on Sept. 25, 2023.
Source: WBRZ
Louisiana House budget plan eliminates teacher pay raise, pays down retirement debt instead
The spending plan retains university faculty pay raise, reduces early childhood education slots.
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First Horizon and TD Bank have called off a $13 billion deal that would have formed America’s sixth-largest bank, adding to the turmoil sweeping the country’s regional lenders.
Caught up in the worst banking crisis since 2008, First Horizon (FHN)’s share price has plunged about 40% over the past couple months, falling well below the $25 per share that TD offered when the takeover was announced in February 2022.
Source: CNN
The goal of the program is to have more qualified, highly-skilled nurses enter the healthcare workforce at a time when Louisiana and the nation are facing a critical shortage, the university said in a release.
Source: The Advertiser