Lawmakers approve $44 million in new funding for the Child Care Assistance Program, a state-funded program that provides financial assistance to low-income families. Louisiana Policy Institute for Children Director Libbie Sonnier says this investment will help thousands of people across the state.
The state relied on COVID relief money to keep the project afloat.
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and House & Senate insurance committee leaders are holding a press conference this morning to address the package of bills aimed at fixing an ailing home insurance market. Donelon tells LRN one bill he’s glad to see pass will offer homeowners financial help with hardening roofs…:
Cut 7 (10) “…ten thousand dollars.”
51 of Louisiana’s 57 death row inmates filed clemency applications with the Louisiana Board of Pardons in the hopes Governor Edwards will commute their death sentence to a life sentence. Edwards has made it known he opposes the death penalty. Cecelia Kappel, director of the Capital Appeals Project, represents many of the death row prisoners who filed the request…
Cut 12 (07) “…for clemency.”
2010 was the last time Louisiana executed a death row inmate.
Tiger fans in Nebraska will notice a few changes in the College World Series from their last appearance in 2017. Director of Visit Omaha Deborah Ward…
The Bayou Bengals will play the Tennessee Volunteers Saturday. This is the 19th time the Tigers have played in the College World Series.