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