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Louisiana Club Earns ‘Best Golf Course’ in U.S. Honors
The game of golf is alive and well in the state of Louisiana. According to golflink.com there are 140 golf courses in Louisiana. Eighty of those courses are public courses, another 30 are private courses, and still another 30 would qualify to be called municipal golf courses. Louisiana even has its own "Golf Trail".
Louisiana lawmakers won’t call special session, constitutional convention in August
Louisiana lawmakers won’t return to Baton Rouge in August to address tax and budget policy in a special session despite a last-minute push from Gov. Jeff Landry’s revenue secretary to do so, according to a handful of legislators interviewed this week. Legislative leadership is expected to make a formal statement saying as much Thursday, but […]
Digging Deeper : Cool temperatures, clouds and showers hang around for a few more days, but changes are on the horizon
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Over the past week, there have been a few showers around the Mid-South, in which, a lot of cloud coverage has engulfed the region, too. The cloud coverage, few showers and cool temperatures that we have experienced lately is due to a stationary front that hasn’t moved a whole heck of a lot over the past week. This stationary front hasn’t even weakened all that much, and continues to dump some pretty heavy rain totals over parts of Texas and Louisiana. For the Mid-South, specifically, the stationary front did take a little bit of a jog to the south on Wednesday, which kept the shower activity slightly further south than I anticipate. Nonetheless, there have been a few showers around the Mid-South over the past few days, and until this stationary front completely clears out, the threat of showers will stay elevated.
Popular actor and Louisiana film director John Schneider announces that he's remarried
John Schneider is officially hitched. The producer, director and actor announced on his Facebook page today that he and Dee Dee Sorvino, widow of late actor Paul Sorvino, were married in Las Vegas on Tuesday, July 23. "Big news big news everybody!" Schneider wrote in his Facebook post. "Dee Dee...
New exhibit connects chattel slavery to mass incarceration in Louisiana
An image at the Historic New Orleans Collection depicts four enslaved people standing in chains and cleaning the streets of what is now New Orleans’ Central Business District. One of them, a woman wearing a pink, striped dress, has a collar wrapped around her neck. Back then, enslaved people...
UL Football Unveils New Helmet Logo With Louisiana Theme
Football season in Louisiana is here and the excitement for high school, college, and professional football is growing. Going into a new season, teams often introduce their fans to new or throwback uniform color schemes, and some even elect to change their helmets up to add to the excitement. The...
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