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Hebert defends Guard facility location
UL president says it expands opportunities for collaboration BY STEPHEN MARCANTEL Staff writer
tension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who have demanded that Republicans negotiate with them on the Affordable Care Act tax credits that expire Jan. 1. Thune, R-S.D., promised a mid-December vote on the subsidies, but there was no guarantee of success. The final vote was 60-40. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, voted against moving ahead with the package, along with most of his Democratic colleagues.
In a letter sent to residents of a neighborhood adjacent to a new Louisiana National Guard Readiness Center, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s interim President Jaimie Hebert said the partnership with the Guard is in alignment with the university’s strategic goals and still leaves room for development along Congress Street. Concerns over the $37.5 million, 83,000-square-foot facility came to Hebert light after an Oct. 8 groundbreaking at the university’s research park along West Congress Street that surprised many residents. The letter sent Thursday followed a Louisiana National Guard response to questions posed by two local legislators. Locating the facility within University Research Park will strengthen the school’s partnership with the Louisiana National Guard in several research areas, Hebert wrote. It also expands opportunities for collaboration in areas such as emergency management and cybersecurity, he said. The letter said the arrangement aligns with the university’s master plan for growth and with its mission to create research partnerships. He added that placing the facility on university property will allow the Louisiana National Guard to secure federal research and contract dollars it currently doesn’t qualify for. Hebert also addressed some concerns over future economic
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, urged lawmakers to start returning to Washington after the Senate voted to move forward with a stopgap funding bill to reopen the government through Jan. 30.
Legislation before the Senate would also need to clear the House before the federal government could reopen BY MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate was drawing closer to a vote Monday evening on legislation to end the shutdown after a small group of Senate Democrats broke a 40day stalemate late Sunday evening and voted with Republicans to move forward with reopening the government. Senators began debate on the bill just past nightfall. Senate Majority Leader John Thune set up a series of procedural votes and said he hoped final passage would take “hours not days.” “The American people have suffered for long enough. Let’s not pointlessly drag
Supreme Court hears suit by inmate shaved by guards BY MARK BALLARD
Staff writer
WASHINGTON — While seemingly sympathetic to a Louisiana inmate having his dreadlocks shaved off against his religious beliefs, conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices asked questions that hinted they were skeptical he could sue the government to be compensated. A devout Rastafarian, Damon Landor had followed dictates of the religion and grown his hair for 20 years without cutting it. Three weeks before the end of his fivemonth drug-related sentence in 2020, Landor
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this bill out,” he said as the Senate opened on Monday morning. The legislation would still need to clear the House before the government could reopen. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, urged lawmakers to start returning to Washington “right now” given travel delays, but he said he would issue an official notice for the House’s return once the Senate passes the legislation. “We have to do this as quickly as possible,” Johnson said at a news conference. He has kept the House out of session since mid-September, when the House passed a bill to continue government funding. After weeks of negotiations, the moderate Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the government without a guaranteed ex-
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La. pushing for bigger fortified roof discounts Temple says state now has 10,000
BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
Louisiana may soon require insurance companies to deliver bigger discounts to homeowners who put fortified roofs on their homes, as residents flock to get the new roofs and state officials grapple with an enduring insurance crisis that has brought stubbornly high premiums. Insurance Commissioner Tim STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD Temple said Monday his office is moving to implement a rule that Louisiana now has 10,000 residents with fortified sets a “benchmark” discount that roofs, the third-most in the nation, according to state insurers must give to homeownInsurance Commissioner Tim Temple. ers with fortified roofs. The state
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has doled out millions in taxpayerfunded grants to help homeowners put the roofs on their homes. Temple announced that 10,000 Louisianans now have fortified roofs, the third-most in the nation behind Alabama and North Carolina. This time last year, only about 1,000 residents had them. And he said the next round of grants will open to residents this Wednesday. The agency will select 1,000 people at random. “Louisiana is the fastest-growing state when it comes to putting fortified roofs on in the country,” Temple said. About 40% of those have received a $10,000 grant from the state to help pay for them,
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