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You’re listening to Red River Radio News.
Good morning, I’m Jeff Ferrell.
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A new study finds undecided Latino voters remain skeptical about both the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the November midterms.
Texas Public Radio's Marian Navarro has the details:
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“The bipartisan poll of Hispanic voters conducted by the nonprofit UnidosUS found nearly 4 in 10 of those people are a part of the so-called "moveable middle." This includes voters who are undecided, independent, or crossed party lines in 2024. The survey found these voters say they don't see a meaningful difference between the parties. Pocketbook issues also remain the dominant concern for this block of voters, including lowering the cost of living and strengthening jobs and wages. UnidosUS says the movable middle could decide who controls Congress following the election.”
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There’s optimism about artificial intelligence among faculty in higher education in the U.S. South.
That’s according to a recent survey by the American Association of University Professors.
But those same faculty have concerns about attacks on free speech in higher education in the region.
Elise Gregg of the Gulf States Newsroom reports:
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“Around 2,700 faculty members across the South responded to the survey. Roughly 85% said they thought their fields of study would survive the AI Era. But, many have concerns about government overreach in academia, including professors in the Gulf South. Here's Matthew Boedy, president of the AAUP Georgia chapter. He oversees the survey. The faculty in Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana report there's a chilling effect and they're having to change their courses and change their content on their own at the moment, but they feel a kind of implicit unstated pressure. Whereas in Texas and Florida and other places, it's much more explicit. The survey also found about 29 percent of respondents have applied for academic jobs in other states in the last two years.”
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has unveiled a plan to expand in-home care services for Arkansas residents with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
It’s welcome news for families who’ve spent years on a waiting list for services of the state’s Community and Employment Support, known as CES:
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“These services help individuals with disabilities live at home by paying for in-home care. And right now, they’re only available to families that are actually on the waiver. Today my administration is announcing a plan to offer supportive living services to everyone both on the waiver and on the wait list passe.”
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The state estimates it will cost $17 million dollars to extend in-home services to everyone on the CES waitlist and begin in January.
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Portions of Louisiana experienced something called a “backdoor cold front" yesterday.
And LSU health climatologist Barry Keim says some of the state should feel difference starting today:
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“It’s going to bring down the temperatures ever so slightly. But more importantly, it’s going to bring down the humidity and you’re really going to feel the difference here. The air is just gonna have that fall like quality that you haven’t had for quite some time.”
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Keim says it is referred to as a “back door cold front” because the cool air will move into the state from the northeast, instead of the northwest, which is unusual.
But the results still mean less humidity, dropping dew point temperatures into the upper 60s through Saturday morning.
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The National Weather Service in Shreveport is calling for:
- Three words we’ve heard all too often “sunny & hot.” That describes every day through the middle of next week, with today’s high 97.
- Then 98 Friday, Saturday, & Sunday.
- By the time summer officially ends on Tuesday, September 22nd, the forecast still calls for a high in the mid-90s.
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