Author Archives: Jeff Palermo
Department of education survey finds one in four public school students do not have a computer
The state Department of Education releases a survey that finds all 69 public school districts are offering some level of distance education while campuses are closed. "The survey also showed there is ...
Apr 21, 2020 Nenad Stojkovic / CC
House GOP Leader, Governor disagree on reopening strategy
The Chairman of Louisiana's House Republican delegation, Blake Miguez, says Louisiana needs to reopen its economy on a parish by parish basis, but Governor Edwards disagrees. Miguez wrote a letter to ...
Apr 20, 2020
Louisiana to allow time-sensitive elective medical procedures to resume on Monday
Louisiana will allow surgical procedures to resume on Monday, April 27th that would treat an emergency or time-sensitive medical condition. Under the revised order, surgery can also take place to avoi...
Apr 20, 2020
LSU Health Shreveport is 3-D printing coronavirus test nasal swabs
LSU Health Shreveport is using a 3D printer to mass-produce nasal swabs for their COVID-19 testing lab. Molecular and cellular physiology professor Dr. Steven Alexander hopes the extra swab availabili...
Apr 20, 2020
Sixty percent of small businesses in danger of closing
A Main Street America survey shows nearly 60-percent of small businesses in the state are in danger of closing permanently due to COVID-19 in the next six months. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is a co-...
Apr 20, 2020
LA could see dozens of retrials as a result of US Supreme Court unanimous jury decision
The US Supreme Court rules all felony trials must be decided by a unanimous jury verdict, a decision likely to result in dozens of retrials in Louisiana. In 2018 Louisiana passed a constitutional amen...
Apr 20, 2020 Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino
Congressman Graves on the 10th anniversary of the BP Oil Spill
Ten years ago today the BP Oil Spill killed 11 rig workers and coated much of the state's coastline in tar. Congressman Garrett Graves was the head of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority ...
Apr 20, 2020 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region / CC
For the first time, oil futures are trading in the negative
For the first time ever, West Texas Intermediate oil futures traded in the negative. Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Gifford Briggs says the economic impact on oil is not surprising. "We'v...
Apr 20, 2020
Ten years after the BP oil spill many species have not recovered
Today marks ten years since the BP Oil Spill ravaged the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, and environmental scars exist still to this day. National Wildlife Federation Gulf of Mexico Restoration Director Dav...
Apr 20, 2020 May 20, 2010 - Gulfport, MS, USA - Oil and dispersant on the water's surface in the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010, a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began. (Credit Image: © James Edward Bates/TNS/ZUMA Wire)
Louisiana Tech freshman is 3-D printing ear guards for medical personnel
A Louisiana Tech freshman is 3-D printing ear guards for medical personnel that's helping to relieve pressure on the ears from the elastic bands on face masks. Mechanical engineering major Avereigh Ba...
Apr 19, 2020
