License for Diamond Jacks Casino Might Move to Slidell
The plan to move the Diamond Jacks Casino license from Bossier City to south Louisiana is moving forward. There is a proposal to move the local license to the Slidell area.
Citizens of St. Tammany Parish would first have to vote to have the gambling complex built on Lake Ponchatrain in the Slidell area. The State Gaming Control Board would also have to ok moving the license.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to let the process move forward for a gambling establishment in southeast Louisiana. The vote to move out of committee was 4-3. The bill is now headed to the Senate floor.
Senator Greg Tarver (D) Shreveport
Shreveport Senator Greg Tarver is calling out LSU Baton Rouge amidst the sexual misconduct scandal and said they are attempting to skirt attention and place it on LSU Shreveport instead. Tarver said it is clear that LSU Baton Rouge has not even touched the surface of mishandlings.
“Not only with the football team but other areas, what they’re trying to do is shift everything to Shreveport and use Shreveport as a scapegoat, and that’s not right nor fair,” said Tarver.
Shreveport Medical School Chancellor Dr. G.E. Ghali was placed on leave after allegations of sexual misconduct. Tarver said but the chancellor at the New Orleans has received more complaints than Ghali but was not placed on leave.
BREC steps up opposition to legislation that would split up parks
Thursday, April 15, 2021 Sunset at BREC s Milford Wampold Memorial Park and University Lake. (File photo)
BREC is stepping up its opposition to a bill by Sen. Bodi White, R-Central, that would break up the parish parks system and create three new smaller agencies to run parks and recreation in the cities of Central and Zachary and in the prospective city of St. George once it is incorporated.
In a fact sheet released earlier this week, BREC says the bill would create additional and unnecessary layers of bureaucracy, risk BREC’s national accreditation status and jeopardize transformational projects that benefit the entire parish like the planned overhaul of the zoo and Greenwood Park by removing about 30% of the system’s revenues.
Louisiana med school chancellor on leave after complaints
April 13, 2021 GMT
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) The head of a Louisiana medical school is on administrative leave while the university investigates allegations that he suppressed students’ complaints about sexual harassment and retaliated against faculty members who supported the students.
Dr. Ghali E. Ghali, chancellor of the Louisiana State University medical school in Shreveport, said he’s sure he will be cleared and return to work.
A state senator from Shreveport accused the LSU system of using Ghali and the medical school to distract attention from a report detailing repeated mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations at its flagship campus in Baton Rouge.
LSU Health Shreveport chancellor put on administrative leave day after EEOC complaints filed against university
Senator claims LSU is using med school as scapegoat for issues at Baton Rouge campus Dr. G.E. Ghali, chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport (Source: LSU Health Shreveport) By Rachael Thomas | April 13, 2021 at 11:59 AM CDT - Updated April 13 at 1:40 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport, Dr. G.E. Ghali, has been placed on administrative leave one day after the university confirmed several Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints have been filed against the school.
GHALI SUSPENDED: LSU Health Shreveport responds to report