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State’s Medicaid rolls are dropping Providers say patients are going to suffer BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
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Lafayette City Council member Kenneth Boudreaux, left, along with Lafayette Parish Mayor-President Monique Boulet and family members of Jay and Lionel Hebert kick off centennial celebrations Friday at the Jay & Lionel Hebert Municipal Golf Course in Lafayette.
Lafayette municipal golf course turns 100, celebrates its place in community history BY JOANNA BROWN Staff writer
For drivers passing by on Louisiana Avenue, the Lafayette municipal golf course is a sea of green in the urban heart of the city, dotted with live oaks, water hazards and golf carts visible through a three-story high netting that lines the roadway. For nongolfers, the course pro-
New nonstop flights to Destin and Fort Walton Beach are expected to bring more tourists to the popular beach vacation spots on the Florida Panhandle. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By PHELAN M. EBENHACK
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vides a pleasant backdrop to their daily commute. For residents of north Lafayette, it’s a 100-yearold anchor of the community, a place where generations have grown up working part-time jobs and swimming at the nearby Domingue Recreation Center. And for people like District 5 Lafayette council member Kenneth Boudreaux and Herb Schilling, of Schilling Distributing Co., the
For months, around half of the 147 beds at one of New Orleans’ largest addiction treatment facilities have sat empty. It’s not because there’s no demand. In fact, the waitlist for the Odyssey House Louisiana’s Broadmoor building runs dozens of names long. It’s because the facility cannot treat the growing number of people arriving at its doors without health insurance. It’s a problem health care facilities are confronting across the state, as roughly half a million Louisianans have lost coverage through Medicaid since 2023. More are continuing to fall off the rolls each month, as the Louisiana Department of Health has ramped up eligibility checks ahead of federal requirements that will take effect across the country next year. Treatment providers and advocates say the changes have barred low-income people from receiving needed health care and are threatening the bottom line of health
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course is a core part of their personal histories — a place that has shaped careers and friendships over decades. “This is the first place I ever hit a golf ball,” said Schilling, sharing memories at the Jay & Lionel Hebert Municipal Golf Course’s centennial kickoff celebration on Friday in the clubhouse.
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A sign on a door reminds Medicaid members to stay covered at Odyssey House Louisiana in New Orleans on Thursday.
‘We have been discovered’ Fort Walton Beach is ready for tourism surge as more flights are added
on summer break, just across the bay from bustling Destin. But a new class of tourists is arriving. Five nonstop flights from cities around the country will start landing at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport this spring and summer. And now that AlBY MARTHA SANCHEZ Staff writer legiant Air built a new $11 million concourse a few years ago, many tourists The shores of Fort Walton Beach, Flori- are flying in. da, have long been a drive-in destination, ä See BEACH, page 4A a place where packed family cars arrive
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