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State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollar...

The Friends of the Rockport Public Library’s Donut Dash 5K Family Fun Run/Walk was held at 8 a.m., Saturday, June 3. Despite the chilly weather and scattered raindrops, the event was a big success — three times larger than any of the library’s...

MPNnow Voters across the state will head to the polls again this year to decide the annual budgets for their school districts. Voters also will be tasked with choosing candidates for each district's board of education on May 18, according to the state's School Boards Association. While there will be in-person voting, due to COVID-19 many districts will be keeping certain precautions in place, along with the use of drop boxes and absentee ballots.  Here's what you need to know for each school district's election: What's on the ballot for 2021? While specifics vary, most school districts will ...

/EIN News/ -- Knoxville, TN, March 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pi Day is March 14 th, an annual event dating back to 1988. That’s when physicist Larry Shaw with the Exploratorium in San Francisco realized that the date 3/14 echoes the first three digits of pi, a constant value used in math to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. In a team-building effort at the Exploratorium, Shaw invited employees for pie and tea on 3/14 at precisely 1:59 pm. The first five numbers of pi are 3.14159, and pies are typically round, like a circle, so Shaw’s precise timing...