President Barack Obama endorses Army Veteran and Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins for U-S Senate. UL-Lafayette Poli Sci Professor Pearson Cross says even though an endorsement is never a bad thing, he doesn’t feel it will sway white Louisiana voters at the polls since only 14-percent of them supported Obama in 2012.
Perkins is running against incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.
After watching Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow break nearly every passing record last season, Myles Brennan gets a chance to show what he can do as the LSU starting quarterback when LSU hosts Mississippi State tomorrow. Brennan says he’s looking forward to writing his own story
About 160,000 Louisianans who did not claim their pandemic stimulus checks will receive a letter in the mail asking them to contact the IRS. IRS spokesperson Raphael Tulino says most are people who are not required by law to file an income tax return either because they do not make enough money, or they’re senior citizens living on social security.
The Audubon Nature Institute, which manages the zoo and aquarium in New Orleans, asks the city if they can borrow 10-million dollars. President of the institute, Ron Forman, says they are set to lose 18-million dollars because of the pandemic, even with some visitors able to return in August…
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Forman says he’s had to lay off two-thirds of its employees.