April 2023

What else needs a baseball pitch clock?

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M y brother, the former Babe Ruth Leaguer, remains deeply skeptical of Major League Baseball’s newly instituted pitch clock.

It’s about time

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E ven baseball purists like myself, who still aren’t comfortable with designated hitters and restrictions on where fielders may be positioned, find themselves overwhelmingly in favor of the new pitch clock.

Fight litter during Love the Boot Week

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L itter is not a new problem for Louisiana’s 64 parishes. Despite spending over $40 million in litter abatement each year, Louisiana is still experiencing shocking levels of litter statewide.

European spacecraft on way to Jupiter and its icy moons

(AP) — A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.

Dairy farm explosion injures one person, kills 18,000 cattle

DIMMITT, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that critically injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of cattle is the deadliest barn fire recorded since the Animal Welfare Institute began tracking the fires.

Queeen of the Coop

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Aundee Katherine Navarre

DeSantis signs Florida GOP’s six-week abortion ban into law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Airport reopens as South Florida flood water slowly recedes

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One of Florida’s busiest airports reopened Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded and turned Fort Lauderdale’s streets into rivers.

NJ charges itself with damaging land it was bound to protect

(AP) — New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has charged itself with damaging habitat for threatened and endangered birds that it was supposed to protect.

Top Fed official sees need for more interest rate increases

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on inflation for more than a year and that more interest rate hikes are needed to get prices under control.