Category Archives: Politics & Government
State Senator asks Governor to allow clergy to enter healthcare facilities
A Minden Senator is asking the Edwards administration to allow clergy members into healthcare facilities to tend to sick and/or dying patients. The current public health emergency bars family from ent...
Jul 29, 2020
Lt Gov. optimistic about the chances for football, Mardi Gras
Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is optimistic that football and Mardi Gras will not have to be canceled due to the pandemic, and is celebrating yet another record weekend for state parks. Nungesser says ...
Jul 29, 2020
Gov. Edwards says feds need to help states' unemployment insurance funds with COVID-19 relief legislation
Governor John Bel Edwards is calling on Louisiana's Congressional Delegation to consider funding Louisiana's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund in the current proposal for COVID-19 relief legislation. ...
Jul 29, 2020
Four businesses see licenses suspended as Louisiana becomes number one in per capita COVID-19 cases
Louisiana has moved to number one in the country in per capita COVID-19 cases. "That per capita ranking should be an alarm bell for everyone to fully understand just how serious this is," said Governo...
Jul 28, 2020 cesar bojorquez / CC
First $250 front line worker checks ship this week
The Louisiana Revenue Department will begin sending out 250-dollar checks this week to those frontline workers that had to work when the governor's stay-at-home order went into place. Secretary Kimber...
Jul 28, 2020 Pictures of Money / CC
Last enhanced unemployment checks ship Friday
The 600-dollar weekly unemployment benefit for those who lost their job or faced reduced hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic ends this week. That's why Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejo...
Jul 28, 2020
GOP unveils trillion dollar next round of COVID stimulus
Republicans introduced their opening offer for the next round of COVID economic stimulus, a trillion-dollar plan that reduces federal enhanced unemployment and issues another stimulus check. Federal u...
Jul 28, 2020
Teacher "safety strikes" being actively considered in Louisiana COVID hotspots
The American Federation of Teachers threatens to back "safety strikes" in certain areas of the country if more is not done to assure the safety of teachers and students when fall classes resume. Louis...
Jul 28, 2020
Governor's office releases COVID PSA aimed at the youth
In an effort to stop runaway youth COVID transmission the governor's office releases a PSA featuring half a dozen young people talking about they suffered from COVID-19. The PSA begins with the young ...
Jul 28, 2020
Tech sector jobs leaving Silicon Vally in favor of Lafayette with the arrival of SchoolMint
The Acadiana area is seeing the addition of nearly 400 new jobs as educational software company SchoolMint announces it will be moving their headquarters from San Francisco to Lafayette. Governor John...
Jul 28, 2020
