Since 2006 rural areas in Louisiana continue to lose nonfarm jobs and economist Dr. Loren Scott predicts the trend will continue among the 29 parishes outside the state’s nine metropolitan areas. He predicts 1,000 jobs will be lost next year and in 2024 17-hundred job losses.
Scott says however there are rural areas that are seeing a boon in job in the timber sector.
A number of old, broken-down local bridges are getting some much-needed TLC, thanks to $270-million in federal Infrastructure coming to Louisiana. The state closed 25 bridges last year and closed 31 so far this year. DOTD spokesman Rodney Mallett says the money will be sent to parishes to address their most urgent needs…:
CUT 08 (07) “…as well.”
After the President issued pardons for federal marijuana possession convictions, many ask will Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards follow suit? He says he will consider any such pardons that reach his desk, but it’s up to lawmakers to permanently address weed convictions…:
CUT 12(12) “…this direction.”
For the first time in the Louisiana Lottery’s 31-year history, a $20 scratch-off game is available. Louisiana Lottery spokesperson Dustin Annison says the new $20 100X features four top prizes of half a million dollars. He says other lotteries have had huge success with higher-priced scratch-off games with twenty, thirty, fifty, and even $100 tickets.
Those tickets go on sale today.