Republican Clay Higgins and Democrat Troy Carter have reintroduced the bipartisan Destruction of Hazardous Imports Act of 2025 to empower the FDA to destroy contaminated food imports. Deborah Long with the Southern Shrimp Alliance says the bill addresses a critical loophole that allows importers to “port shop” rejected products back into the U.S.

Cut 3 (12) “…re-enter our country” 

The House Civil Law Committee has approved a bill that says if police determine a driver is 51-percent or more at fault for an accident, that driver cannot recover damages for injuries suffered in the wreck. The bill’s author, Emily Chenevert (SHEN-uh-vair), says you shouldn’t be able to collect damages if the accident is mostly your fault.

Cut 13 (08)  “…the same measure.”

If a lawmaker gets his way, there will be no more LSU home football afternoon games in the month of September. Harahan Republican Representative John Illg has introduced a resolution that would request that all LSU home games in September start no earlier than six p-m. Illg points to the game against UCLA last September 21st that kicked off at 2:30 p.m., and many fans were overcome by the 92-degree heat that afternoon.

Cut 6 (08) “…it wasn’t worse.”

The average high temperature in Baton Rouge in the month of September is 89 degrees. However, it also cools to an average low of 69 degrees, making football under the lights a rather pleasant experience, even in late summer.

There are now more private sector jobs in Louisiana than ever before. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says Louisiana now has almost 1.7-million private sector jobs, a one-month increase of almost three-thousand jobs.