According to the Louisiana Department of Health, the number of patients in the hospital with COVID has increased by 139 over the last week to 678. L-D-H reported 35-hundred more new cases yesterday and State Health Officer Doctor Joe Kanter says there are many more unreported because of positive cases confirmed through at-home tests
Cut 9 (08) “…being spread right now”

We are less than 13 months away from qualifying for Louisiana’s 2023 governor’s race. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says there are a number of Republican candidates looking to run …
cut 13 (11) “….Lt. Governor”
On the Democratic side New Orleans City Councilwoman Helena Moreno is being encouraged to run.

Inflation has surged to a 40-year high of 9.1-percent over this time last year, and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy lays the blame squarely on President Biden and Democrats in Congress. He says the run-up on prices began with the president signing executive orders to greatly slow domestic energy production; forcing energy prices up sharply…:
Cut 3 (09) “…across our country.”
But President Biden says the latest report on inflation is from last month and this month, gas prices are dropping and so are the prices for other commodities, like wheat.

The Acadiana region is mourning the death of former state lawmaker and former Natural Resources Secretary Ron Gomez passed away in Lafayette. Gomez served in the state legislature from 1980 through 1989, and headed up DNR under Governor Buddy Roemer. New Orleans political analyst Ron Faucheux (pronounce: FO-shay) served with Gomez at the State Capitol. He says Gomez was an excellent legislator…:
Cut 6 (11) “…a lot of admiration.”