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Looming State Budget Deficit Concerns LSU-HSC Shreveport Chancellor

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published January 19, 2017 at 9:11 AM CST
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G.E. Ghali, MD / Chancellor LSUS-HSC Medical School
Courtesy: LSU-HSC Shreveport

LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT BRACING FOR BUDGET CUTS -  The state of Louisiana has determined it has a budget deficit $304 million dollars to address in the upcoming legislative session.  Simply put:  there will be more cuts and two areas bracing for this will be education and healthcare.  Dr. G. E. Ghali, Chancellor for LSU-Health Sciences Center in Shreveport  is concerned as such cuts will affect both the hospital University Health  and the medical school. Such cuts have already been made as Ghali explains in this story produced by Chuck Smith of Red River Radio News for Morning Edition local newscast.

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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.
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