Early voting is now underway. The biggest race on the general election ballot is for U.S. Senate, with Republican Julia Letlow squaring off against Democrat Jamie Davis. Throughout the campaign, analysts had said whoever emerges as the Republican nominee – in this case, Letlow – would be almost a lock to win the general election. But LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says with the only two publicly-released polls showing Davis within just four points of Letlow, it could end up being a lot closer than originally forecast.
Cut 12 (11) “…ties with Trump.”
The U-S Drought Monitor releases an update Thursday, and State Climatologist Jay Grymes expects to see extreme drought and exceptional drought designations throughout the state. Grymes says wildfires are becoming an ever-increasing problem as well.
When it comes to foreclosures, each of Louisiana’s biggest metropolitan areas is at an elevated risk. That’s according to a new study by NestCash, which did a county-by-county analysis of foreclosure risk across the country. NestCash Founder John Carter says Louisiana’s mortgage delinquency rate is the highest in the country.
Cut 3 (10) “…national 0.9-percent.”
During the inaugural Love Our Waterways month last month, 43-hundred volunteers across 51 parishes removed 68 tons of debris from Louisiana’s waterways. Susan Russell, the executive director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful, says the volunteers ran the gamut from government organizations, schools, businesses, non-profits – and even families.