The Public Service Commission is looking at ways to help prevent massive power outages like the ones that plagued the state in February and then again with Hurricane Ida. District 3 Commissioner Lambert Boissiere says weather-related events are getting more powerful and doing much more damage than in the past to the state’s power grid and they want to look at ways to mitigate damage.
They will look at things like putting powerlines underground.
Senator John Kennedy officially pointed the finger at the Biden Administration when he made remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday. He says it shouldn’t come as any surprise that inflation is rising at a rate that’s helping to double the price of gasoline and responsible for double-digit increases in the prices of other consumer goods and services.
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If you prefer celestial events to getting some shuteye, then you’re invited to jump out of bed for a near-total lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning. More from Dave Brannen.
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COVID hospitalizations in Louisiana are just under 200 today at 199.