🏈 Louisiana Governor dropping the hammer

[planomateo]

Read Gov. John Bel Edwards televised speech

As I mentioned earlier, if the legislature fails to act and we are forced to proceed with these cuts, the LSU Ag Center and parish extension offices in every parish, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center will close by April 1st and the LSU main campus in Baton Rouge will run out of money after April 30th, as will the Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and LSU Eunice. There is no money left for payroll after those dates. The Southern University System, and University of Louisiana System, and the Louisiana Community and Technical College System are in the same boat: without legislators approving new revenue this special session, some campuses will be forced to declare financial bankruptcy, which would include massive layoffs and the cancellation of classes.

If you are a student attending one of these universities, it means that you will receive a grade of incomplete, many students will not be able to graduate and student athletes across the state at those schools will be ineligible to play next semester. That means you can say farewell to college football next fall.

The development of our technical and community college system has been one our greatest points of progress in the last two decades. The current budget realities will decimate these institutions as they are already preparing to lay off 1,200 employees at a time when business and industries primary concern is the development of a world class workforce.

These are not scare tactics. This is reality -- an unstable state budget will not only hurt children and working families in our state, it will devastate communities, businesses and local government as well.

 

[Che Boludo]

Read Gov. John Bel Edwards televised speech

No Ole Miss or LSU next year. Print the shirts, we're winning the West.

 

[TerryP]

There's a LSU fan I talk with occasionally that's been schlopping Sanders for the last few months. A portion of me wants to ask how he balances these two...he'd likely blame it on the SEC offices so I suspect I'll leave it alone.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[TerryP]

"...Sell marijuana legally..."

Sounds like a solution to Miles' clock management issues...

 

[TerryP]

No Ole Miss or LSU next year. Print the shirts, we're winning the West.

 

[JoshB]

There's a LSU fan I talk with occasionally that's been schlopping Sanders for the last few months. A portion of me wants to ask how he balances these two...he'd likely blame it on the SEC offices so I suspect I'll leave it alone.

What does Bernie Sanders have to do with this guy?

 

[Bamaholic#1]

 

[TerryP]

What does Bernie Sanders have to do with this guy?

One of Sander's main points in his platform is free education for college students. That, versus his alma mater having these financial difficulties has to have left him (the LSU fan) scratching his head a bit.

IF he hasn't put two and two together, he'll have math class Tuesday morning.

 

[planomateo]

Talk to parents that send their kids to LSU about the cost...you're mind will be BLOWN (cheap).

They won't cancel football.

 

[252BAMA]

Interesting suggestion inasmuch as the drying up of the tobacco settlement money which funded the TOPS scholarships is one of, if not the main issue in this story.

 

[TerryP]

They won't cancel football.

It's been killed ... at least, as they came to know it for a stretch of about seven or eight years.

Seriously though, it's not the same program as it was five years ago.

 

[psychojoe]

Louisiana politics is always a good source of entertainment. It makes what happens in Alabama politics seem dull and dry by comparison.

 

[TerryP]

Talk to parents that send their kids to LSU about the cost...you're mind will be BLOWN (cheap).

I don't know what brought this back to mind but it was enough for me to walk back inside and post ... (and, getting a little chilly, but I digress.)

When we were having conversations about COA, I seem to recall there being very little difference in UA vs LSU. In fact, I want to say LSU is a couple of hundred more (in-state) than UA. For out of state I seem to recall there being about a 2K difference.

 

[Bammerboy321]

This is stupid.

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[It Takes Eleven]

This is stupid.

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You have a future as Trump's speechwriter.

 

[Bammerboy321]

You have a future as Trump's speechwriter.

I don't feel like giving my analysis. I'm already doing that for my journalism class right now.

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[Bammerboy321]

Though, I'm not really giving my analysis. Opinions must be excluded.

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[It Takes Eleven]

Though, I'm not really giving my analysis. Opinions must be excluded.

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You'll never be a journalist believing that.

 

[Bammerboy321]

You'll never be a journalist believing that.

Not studying to be a journalist though, so I'm good.

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