A large crowd of tennis and pickleball players appeared largely in favor of a proposed $1.6 million project adding more pickleball courts at Lincoln Park and tennis courts at Canyon
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Red Alert! Big week ahead! This is not a drill!
Team USA opens its defense of Olympic gold, led by Kevin Durant, at 8 a.m. Sunday morning. On Wednesday, they play Iran which will air after midnight in New York and on Saturday, it’s the Czech Republic, again at 8 in the morning. The NBA Draft is Thursday night at Barclays Center and the Nets have, at this writing, four picks, the most in the Sean Marks era. Saturday is the deadline for the Nets to offer Bruce Brown a qualifying offer, making him a restricted free agent.
This is not the year to cut anything for tourism, said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, who supports the state s movie tax credit program.
House Appropriations advances Senate-approved legislation mandating children who turn five years old on or before September 30th attend Kindergarten.
The vote was 19-1 with Bossier City Representative Raymond Crews the lone dissenter. He said he’s been bombarded with calls from concerned constituents who worry they will be arrested if they don’t send their child to kindergarten.
“You said 90% of the brain develops between zero and five, but how do we know that the importance of being with parents and family is not more important than being at school at that age?” Crews asked bill author Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields and other experts who testified on behalf of the legislation.