The Secretary of State’s Office is pushing three bills in the current legislative session focused on election security. House Bill 547 by Metairie Republican Polly Thomas would prohibit taking pictures of voter registration information in precinct registers. Secretary Landry says this is to protect those who haven’t voted yet from intimidation.
House Bill 691 would check the state’s voter rolls against the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program to identify potential non-citizens.
New Saints running back Travis Etienne (AY-chan) is excited to be back home to play for the team he greq up watching. He says being able to play for his home-state team is a dream come true.
Cut 12 (13) “…in this moment.”
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The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries issues a Declaration of Emergency for Ouachita Parish and portions of all six surrounding parishes after a deer there tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. The declaration puts some limits on baiting, feeding and exporting of certain deer parts. While there’s no evidence that humans can contract any illness from a deer infected with CWD, Deer Program Manager Jonathan Bordelon says we should all do what we can to keep the meat of an infected deer out of your kitchen.
Cut 8 (09) “…abundance of caution.”
If crawfish is on your plan for the weekend, there’s good news, prices are starting to come down. That’s according Laney King, the co-founder of The Crawfish App. She says prices for live crawfish are down about 35 cents and for boiled the price is down 50 cents from two weeks ago, even though it’s a slow time for crawfish farmers.