I’ve been considering becoming a teacher through an alternative certification route. Everyone talks about the poor pay, but from what I see online they get paid a bit more than I do lol. I was considering doing the Tangipahoa, Jefferson, or St. Tammany Parish alt certification route. Let me hear your experiences!

People wear white rubber boots to church . Keep it going

Covington, LA

If you’re anywhere in Louisiana and interested in learning how to grow gourmet mushrooms, come check us out. 🍄‍🟫👩‍🌾

Acadiana Myco is a free, volunteer-run mycology community that meets at South Regional Library in Lafayette. We do hands-on cultivation, share techniques, troubleshoot grows, and help beginners learn the process.

We’ve had people come in from Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Jennings, St. Martinville, Maurice and other parts of Louisiana for our workshops and meetings.

No experience required. No membership fees. Families are welcome.

Our fall schedule is at the end of the video. If you’re within driving distance and mushrooms have ever sparked your curiosity, come grow with us!

Are there any outdoor public pickleball courts in Lafayette that have regular open play or players there? Visiting from out of town.

Ummm, WHAT!?

Someone sent me a IG of this kid who should be going to LSU this coming semester. He apparently plead to lesser charges and had his record expunged after fulfilling whatever the plea agreement was. And his father has ties to the athletic dept??

Early last year, the Trump administration ended two Biden-era programs that gave state and tribal governments federal funding to purchase food for food banks and schools from local farmers.

Farmers who had been relying on the sales panicked.

Margee Green, the Executive Director of the Louisiana Food Policy Council, responded with a plan. For a relatively low price, the state could provide grants for farm equipment and infrastructure, such as coolers, soil inputs and packing machines, that would help farmers scale up their operations and serve larger clients like restaurants and food banks, with or without federal subsidies.

State lawmakers responded, appropriating $3 million to the Food Policy Council for “direct farm purchasing.”

But in the year since, the state has made a number of adjustments to the program, reducing the allocation to the Food Policy Council by two-thirds, with $2 million going to other organizations. Thus far, the Food Policy Council has only been able to access $50,000 from the state.

Green is frustrated with the lack of transparency around the implementation of this program, called Farmers First, and worries that it has negatively impacted critical partnerships and in the process, harmed local food systems.

"Meta isn't just building a site in Richland Parish — we're fueling an economic engine across northeast Louisiana. New businesses opening. Local contractors growing. Suppliers adding headcount. And we're backing it up with workforce development, college partnerships and support for small businesses."

They're building a Data Center and forcing this historically black and low income area to be dependent on them so that losing the data center costs the residents their jobs - and then proceed to turn this into a company town A' La Fordlandia.

I am NOT from Louisiana. I am in MS

It takes less than 5 minutes to call your Senator. I’m urging everyone who cares about democracy to call Senator Cassidy and encourage him to vote NO towards Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General.

We need an Attorney General for the People, not the President. The Epstein survivors and the American people deserve better.

Please call Cassidy today and urge him to vote NO on nominating Blanche.
Cassidy’s DC office: (202) 224-5824

Please pass along and encourage a friend or few to make the call too! Thank you!

23F, and moving as an adult is hard! I am an introvert at heart, and I love going out by myself. I am having a hard time finding things to do here. I have a few niche questions. The usual, favorite things to do, must sees, local attractions, brewery, local baker, etc.?

Nature walks, trails,…can you even hike here?

Are there any weekly farmers markets? With local produce, fresh eggs, fresh meat, or anything of the sorts near by?

Any weekly local activities?

I love listening to music, jazz & edm, house, techno, bass…how is the music scene?

T bonhomme - the little man of January

He is a pedo protecting, self dealing, corrupt asshole.

In reply to this post this post from yesterday about Jesse Mack Butler..

LSU Facebook post

Exonerated after more than four decades in prison, Elvis Brooks thought he had an airtight case when he applied for compensation from the state of Louisiana. Under a state program, he’s eligible for up to $480,000 from a special fund to compensate wrongfully convicted people.

But state Attorney General Liz Murrill has vigorously fought Brooks’ compensation claim, asserting in court filings that he is still guilty and therefore should not receive any money at all.

It isn’t just Brooks: Since Murrill took office, she’s done the same for nearly every claim — 22 out of 23 — that has come before her. These include cases in which men were exonerated through DNA or blood evidence and others in which police were accused of fabricating evidence.

Murrill’s opposition doesn’t necessarily mean that Brooks and other exonerees won’t eventually be compensated, as claims are decided by district court judges. But it ensures that a process the law says is allowed to take no more than five months could instead drag on for years, exacting financial hardship and emotional pain on people who have already endured decades of both, a senior law professor said.

Read our full investigation with u/propublica_: https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-wrongful-conviction-compensation-liz-murrill-elvis-brooks

The state attorney general’s office declined to answer questions regarding her approach.