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LSU is shopping around for new health care deals in north Louisiana, hoping to move some of its doctors-in-training to more hospitals in the region because the university's relationship with the operator of its own hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe continues to deteriorate. The Associated Press reports that LSU President F. King Alexander calls the university's arrangement to have the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana run the two north Louisiana hospitals "a three-and-a-half-year thorn in our side.
Republicans have a chance to build on their majorities and win a record number of governors' seats in 2016 . Democrats are doing everything they can to stop them.
South Carolina Democrats are blasting the decision by S.C. Education Television not to broadcast any political debates this year, saying the public network is cutting off the voice of a rising minority party that's getting stronger. “It is regrettable that SCETV has apparently decided to focus on political punditry rather than informing the public about the choices facing voters this November,” the party said in a statement Friday.
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson made a campaign stop in Wisconsin where a new poll shows about three-quarters of state residents don't know enough about him to form an opinion. Johnson thanked the crowd for showing up at Serb Hall in Milwaukee Thursday on a night in which the Green Bay Packers were wrapping up the preseason.
The Trump campaign announced Wednesday that Bonnie Foster will lead the Casper office and be the state's campaign director. Foster, a longtime leader in the local and state Republican Party, will be responsible for recruiting volunteers who can call voters in Wyoming, Colorado and elsewhere.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announces that his administration is working on a new education funding system proposal and calls on leaders in Kansas and the education community to assist in developing the proposal during a press conference Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Kansas Statehouse, in Topeka, Kan. TOPEKA, Kan.
Congressional committees will hold hearings next week on Hurricane Katrina's effect upon petroleum prices, and Republican leaders have indicated they will use the forums to advocate for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Primary races still tight in latest Maricopa County vote tally Republican incumbent Helen Purcell, a 27-year veteran, pulled ahead of her conservative challenger Aaron Flannery. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2cjzEYk Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell says she was surprised at how close her primary race with challenger Aaron Flannery is.
And knowing Donald Trump has connected with a lot of blue collar workers, Hillary Clinton's campaign dispatched him to Ohio Thursday to rally auto workers from the GM Lordstown and Parma plants along with other supporters. Thursday night in Parma, Biden was more than an hour late to the scheduled event , partly because he stopped to sample goodies at Rudy's Bakery, which is owned by Ukrainian immigrants.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson made his first stop of the campaign in Wisconsin Thursday night. Speaking to supporters at MilwaukeeA's Serb Hall, Johnson laid out his vision for an economy driven by choice and proposed a shake-up for federal tax policy.
Reid and his caucus already nuked part of it in 2013, eliminating filibusters on presidential appointments . The 60-vote requirement remains in place for SCOTUS nominations and of course for regular legislation.
Fervently declaring "we will build a great wall along the southern border," Trump kicked off his immigration speech Wednesday in Arizona during which he his plan which continues to ignore the complexities currently facing the U.S. immigration system. Among a litany of unrealistic proposals, Trump called for the deportation of students, even though DACA recipients are currently protected from deportation under President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration.
His latest-telling African Americans that they are doing lousy so "what the hell have you got to lose?" is his way to promisea nothing. He has no legitimate policy changes he swears he will implement to change black youth employment numbers Trump will do very well with uneducated white voters in former slave states, supposedly.
A freshman Republican senator from Louisiana says he'll press for immediate emergency disaster funding to help his state recover from this summer's disastrous flooding. Sen. Bill Cassidy says he'll seek emergency community development block grants and other help for his state and has already put his case before Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Where there's a Zika outbreak, there will likely be an accompanying increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a new analysis shows. The latest finding strengthens a suspected link between infection with the mosquito-borne virus and the syndrome, which causes temporary paralysis in its victims.
A victory in the Badger State would dramatically reshape the daunting electoral map Trump faces and potentially indicate strength in other Rust Belt states where the GOP nominee has long argued his populist pitch will resonate. A Marquette University poll - considered the gold standard in Wisconsin politics - found Trump moving to within 3 points of Clinton after trailing by 15 points in the previous survey from early August.
He's attending a Trump fundraiser and speaking at a Salt Lake City policy summit hosted by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Pence is a conservative Indiana governor and former congressman who is expected to use his Utah visit to help bolster support for the party's nominee.