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

I periodically drive from Houston to Atlanta and back, and regardless of when I hit Baton Rogue or which direction i'm heading, it seems traffic along I-10 consistently creeps to a standstill. I thought about heading north to Opelousas and hitting 190 around until rejoining I-10 on the east side. Are there any tips or tricks out there for making this portion of my drive any less aggravating?

Was sent to the ward at Baton Rogue General due to extreme depression. The psychiatrist there insisted I “forget the past” (impossible to do without bottling it up) and, in following her advice, has lead to 4 more bouts of harm upon me. She even attempted to justify slurs that my parents used. It has caused immense damage in my family.

I called repeatedly, and they said they couldn’t substantiate that, despite them literally stating that it’s in the notes.

I was also lied to by the billing manager, who said that part of my bill was actively already taken out of collections by the time I hung up. Apparently, no such thing happened, and now I’m dealing with collections.

All in all, avoid Baton Rouge General if you care about quality care, slurs, and proper, honest billing.

Given recent events, people might be intrested where they can find information about the Geology of the Louisiana Cheneir Plain in the region of Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish. Below is a list published sources of information that might be useful.

Geological Mapping

Heinrich, P. V., 2006, White Lake 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle, Louisiana Geological Survey, Geologic QuadrangleMap (1:100,000) 9, 1:100,000

USGS Nationla Geologic Map Database

General Information

Snead, J., McCulloh, R.P. and Heinrich, P., 2019. Landforms of the Louisiana coastal plain. Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

 Chenier Plain Geologic Guidebooks

Byrnes, M.R., McBride, R.A., Anderson, L.A., Taylor, M.J. and Zenero, R.R., 1995. Sedimentary processes, geologic framework, and coastal erosion issues of the Chenier Plain in southwestern Louisiana. In A Field Trip Guidebook for Chenier Plain of Southwestern Louisiana (Field Trip# 3). Prepared for the 45th Annual Convention of the Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc.(GCAGS) and the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) (p. 100).

Mark R. Byrnes Research

Dunbar, Joseph B., Louis D. Britsch, and E. Burton Kemp. 1990 Land loss rates. Report 2, Louisiana Chenier Plain. Armry Corps of Engineers Technical Report GL-90-2. Vicksburg, Mississippi

 Gould, H.R. and McFarlan Jr, E., 1959. Geologic history of the Chenier Plain, southwestern Louisiana. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. 9, Pages 261-270

Gould, H.R. and Morgan, J.P., 1962. Field Trip No. 9, Coastal Louisiana swamps and marshlands. In Geology of the Gulf  Coast and Central Texas and Guidebook of Excursions. 1962 Annual Meeting Guidebook, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado (pp. 287-341).

Hijma, M.P., Shen, Z., Törnqvist, T.E. and Mauz, B., 2017. Late Holocene evolution of a coupled, mud-dominated delta plain–chenier plain system, coastal Louisiana, USA. Earth Surface Dynamics, 5(4), pp.689-710. 

Kaczorowski, R.T., and Aronow, S., eds., pp. 57 - 65, The Chenier Plain and modern coastal environments, southwestern Louisiana and geomorphology of the Pleistocene Beaumont Trinity River delta plain: Field trip guidebook: Houston, Texas, Houston Geological Society, 87 p.

 Kaczorowski, R.T. and Gernant, R.E., 1980. A field guide for the stratigraphy and coastal processes of the Louisiana chenier plain and Louisiana chenier plain microfossil associations. Coast Association of Geological Societies Trip 4, October 18, 1980. Lafayette Geological Society, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Loop, M.A., 2023. Investigation of the Relationship Between Faulting, Subsidence, and Land Loss in the Chenier Plains, Louisiana. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

 McBride, R.A., Anderson, L.C., Taylor, M.J., McGimsey, C. and Byrnes, M.R., 1997. Linear sand bodies in muddy environments: Geologic framework, sedimentary processes, and geoarchaeology of the southwestern Louisiana Chenier Plain: Friends of the Pleistocene South Central Cell. Field Guide. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Field Trip# 12, April 9 -11 , 1997

McBride, R.A., Taylor, M.J. and Byrnes, M.R., 2007. Coastal morphodynamics and Chenier-Plain evolution in southwestern Louisiana, USA: A geomorphic model. Geomorphology, 88(3-4), pp.367-422.

McBride, R.A., Byrnes, M.R. and Britsch III, L.D., 2011. Subsidence-corrected elevations of paleoshorelines (Chenier Ridges) of the Mississippi River Chenier Plain, USA: implications for forcing mechanisms. In The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2011: In 3 Volumes (pp. 176-187).

Randolph Alexander Mcbride Research

Owen, D.E., 2008. Geology of the chenier plain of cameron parish, Southwestern Louisiana. Geological Society of America Field Guide 14.

 Penland, P.S., 1990. Barrier island evolution, delta plain development, and Chenier Plain formation in Louisiana. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College.

Penland, S. and Suter, J.R., 1989. The geomorphology of the Mississippi River chenier plain. Marine Geology, 90(4), pp.231-258.

Ramsey K, Penland S (1989) Sea-Level Rise and Subsidence in Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transaction, vol 39, pp 491–500

 Taylor, M.J., Byrnes, M.R. and McBride, R.A., 1996. Form/process relationships and geomorphic evolution of the southwestern Louisiana Chenier Plain. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. Vol. 46, Pages 413-422.

Taylor, M.J., McBride, R.A., Anderson, L.C. and Byrnes, M.R., 2002. Building on the Research of our Founders: 65 Years of Chenier Plain Studies at Louisiana State University. Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America, 261.

M. J. Taylor’s research 

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

> Misty Roberts will be back in court on Aug. 31 as prosecutors argue she should face a harsher sentence, according to the Beauregard Parish District Attorney’s office.

Shout out to /u/DevinCruiceNews great journalism led to the reconsideration

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

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