Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards insisted he wasn't trying to scare anyone last week when he outlined the state's economic woes ahead of a special legislative session to determine a new budget. But of course he was. Otherwise he wouldn't have uttered the following words in his address to the state's citizens:
"… If the legislature fails to act and we are forced to proceed with these cuts, the LSU Ag Center and parish extension offices in every parish, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center will close by April 1st and the LSU main campus in Baton Rouge will run out of money after April 30th, as will the Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and LSU Eunice.