Clement Dasalla and Skyla Degrasse are the first weekly winners in the state’s shot At A million Vaccine lottery. Dasalla, an 80-year-old New Orleans resident, won the first of four $100,000 cash prizes. Degrasse, a 17-year-old from Hammond, won the first of nine $100,000 scholarships. The next set of weekly winners will be announced next Friday. You can register at Shot At A million dot com.
AARP’s latest dashboard shows less than 6-percent of Louisiana nursing homes meet the industry benchmark for staff vaccinations. AARP State Director Denise Botcher says the benchmark is having 75-percent of staff fully vaccinated.
In Louisiana, only 41-percent of nursing home staff are fully vaccinated compared to 79-percent of residents.
Louisiana lawmakers will hold a veto session beginning on Tuesday. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says only 12 members of the Senate and 35 House members voted against having a session. A majority vote in either chamber would have canceled the veto session. Pinsonat says now all eyes are on the Senate.
Pinsonat says vetoed legislation prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in female sports is one of the issues driving the veto session.
Governor Edwin Edwards will lie in state at the State Capitol this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. He will be the 5th governor to lie in state, a distinction that Edwards biographer Leo Honeycutt says is decided by the speaker of the house and president of the senate…
Edwards private funeral will be held Sunday at the old state capitol.