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Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service
LSU to fold on its controversial sports-betting deal with Caesar’s
By: Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service - June 2, 2023
LSU is ending its controversial, seven-figure agreement allowing Caesars Entertainment to advertise sports betting across the campus, according to university officials and a sports marketing company involved in the deal. The agreement, struck in 2021, was supposed to last several more years, said Lauren Capone of Playfly Sports, a marketing company that helped arrange the […]
People incarcerated by non-unanimous juries won’t get life line
By: Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service - May 27, 2023
The House voted 48-38 to kill a bill Thursday that would have created an avenue of hope for prisoners who were convicted by non-unanimous juries before the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the practice. House Bill 588 would have created a special committee for providing parole for up to roughly 1,500 people who had been convicted […]
Foreign adversaries couldn’t buy Louisiana property under proposal
By: Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service - May 24, 2023
The House passed a bill 78-22 Tuesday that would prohibit certain foreign adversaries or people connected to them from acquiring immovable property in Louisiana. House Bill 537, authored by Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, caused a stir at a recent committee hearing with many people protesting that it would allow landlords and home sellers to […]
Louisiana lawmakers sink their own pay raises
By: Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service - May 15, 2023
The House Appropriations Committee voted 16-5 Monday to kill a bill that would have increased the salary for legislators. House Bill 149 had proposed increasing their pay to roughly $39,000 a year from $16,800, not including the daily stipend for lawmakers who live outside the Baton Rouge area. The committee rejected the bill after much […]
Bill advances to provide free, easy access to menstrual products in Louisiana schools
By: Allison Allsop, LSU Manship News Service - May 3, 2022
While some schools already provide these products in the nurse’s office or the main office, many do not. A trip to one of those offices can take up class time.