Category Archives: Politics & Government
Governor John Bel Edwards imposes mask mandate and closes bars as COVID hospitalizations continues to rise
Starting Monday, Lousiana residents eight years old and up are required to wear a mask when indoors and outdoors and you cannot be physically distant from others. Governor John Bel Edwards says many m...
Jul 11, 2020
Caddo judge blocks Shreveport mask mandate
A Caddo District Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Shreveport's implementation of a mandate requiring masks to be worn inside businesses. New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, and...
Jul 10, 2020 Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino
Saturday is Election Day for the Presidential Preference Primary
Saturday is Election Day for the Presidential Preference Primary. The voting process will look a little different than other elections. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says there will be spread mitigat...
Jul 10, 2020 Maryland GovPics / CC
Teachers union calls for mask mandate on school grounds
The Louisiana Federation of Teachers is asking the state mandate facemask usage while on school campuses, instead of the current policy of recommending their use. LFT President Larry Carter says they'...
Jul 09, 2020
Surge in demand for COVID testing leads to longer wait times for results
The surge in demand for COVID testing is leading to long delays on results for many, sometimes as long as a week or more. Governor Edwards says early in the pandemic the problem was getting enough tes...
Jul 09, 2020
Recent request to cancel K-12 fall sports sees opposition from Houma lawmaker
Houma Representative Tanner Magee submits a letter to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education President Sandy Holloway requesting that the board does not consider a recommendation to cancel hi...
Jul 09, 2020 Giovanni Arteaga / CC
Governor Edwards not contemplating masks or canceling high school sports in the fall
Governor John Bel Edwards says the state is heading in the wrong direction in its battle to stop the spread of COVID-19, but he is not contemplating a statewide mask mandate. But Edwards says you shou...
Jul 08, 2020
Lawmaker denounces mask mandates in social media video, compares mandates to Nazi Germany
Oil City Representative Danny McCormick denounces masking mandates in a video posted to Facebook. In the clip, McCormick compares mask-wearing to Nazi Germany, the mark of the beast, eludes to the pos...
Jul 08, 2020
Early voting in the 2020 Presidential Primary "unusually high"
JMC Analytics publisher John Couvillon says we've seen unusually high early voting turnout for the upcoming July 11th Presidential Primary election. Couvillon says both primaries have already been dec...
Jul 07, 2020
Baton Rouge Rep. says the next legislative session won't avoid "uncomfortable" conversations about police reform
There was little action on police reform in the recent special session but reform advocates say that is not going to be the case in the fall or 2021 session. Baton Rouge Representative Ted James says ...
Jul 06, 2020
