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IN TRADITION ABOVE: Grambling State Tigers running back Tony Phillips Jr. tries to avoid a tackle by the Southern University
Traffic angst is commonplace in the Baton Rouge area. For decades, city officials and the state Department of Transportation and Development have floated ideas for improving the situation. Potential solutions have ranged from the more modest, like widening roadways, to the grandiose, such as building a Baton Rouge loop. Somewhere between is the “bump,” which would attempt to divert truckers to the old Huey P. Long Bridge and away from the Horace Wilkinson Bridge that carries Interstate 10 over the river. Since 2020, one project has carried perhaps the most excitement and momentum: a new Mississippi River crossing south of Baton Rouge, connecting La. 1 on the west bank to La. 30 on the east bank. But funding, location and even the extent to which a new bridge actually would alleviate traffic in the Capital Region remain stubborn questions for consultants, DOTD officials and parish leaders as the project navigates the environmental review phase. “I really feel like it’s going to be a challenge to get that bridge built,” said Fred Raiford, Baton Rouge director of transportation and drainage and the mayor’s designee on the Capital Area Road and Bridge District. “I think it will. When? Who knows?”
Jaguars during the second half of the
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52nd annual Bayou Classic game at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday. LEFT: Southern fans celebrate after a touchdown against Grambling State during Saturday’s game. STAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER
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Researchers pay special attention to calf nutrition
‘You get a new lease on life’
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La. veterans pushing for psychedelicassisted treatment
ing major hurricanes, floods and other disasters. But he found himself in unusual territory earlier this year, as he trekked alongside other veterans to a clinic in Mexico. They all sought the same opportunity: a BY SAM KARLIN chance to ingest a powerful psyStaff writer chedelic from Africa called iboRetired Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis gaine, which is illegal in the U.S. spent a decades-long career climbCurtis and his son had traveled ing the ranks of the Army, deploy- to Tijuana as part of an ongoing ing in 2004 to Iraq and returning pilgrimage of military veterans, home to eventually serve as the many of them former special leader of the Louisiana National ä See VETERANS, page 9A Guard under two governors dur-
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Southern uses ‘smart ranching’ for better beef
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Kevin Murnane, from left, Frances Vest and Dr. Shawn McNeil stand in the room where participants join in a study investigating psilocybin as a treatment for methamphetamine addiction at the Treatment Resistant Neuropsychiatric Illness Laboratory in Shreveport.
In the Information Age, even cows aren’t safe from data collection. Researchers at the Southern University Agricultural Research Station monitor calves using a hard plastic pill containing sensors, which sits in the animal’s stomach, tracking heart rate, temperature and the amount of time it takes for the bovine to regurgitate and reswallow its food. The work is part of the Ag Center’s “smart ranching” approach to raising what it calls Southern University Natural Beef, or SUN Beef. Researchers track the cattle’s health with key data points, paying special attention to nutrition in the first 60 days of life, to
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