Julia Letlow, Congressman-elect Luke Letlow’s widow, has qualified to run in the special election for the 5th District Congressional seat Luke won in December. He served as former Congressman Ralph Abraham’s chief of staff. Julia says she watched how Luke handled himself and learned a lot.
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Luke Letlow died of COVID-19 less than a week before he was set to be sworn in last month.
Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne warns we will likely face hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts for the fiscal year that beginning in July. The Revenue Estimating Conference adopted this forecast ahead of the budget that will be presented in February. Dardenne says the budget will have to include cuts to higher ed and healthcare.
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According to the most recent COVID-19 dashboard from the Public Affairs Research Council, the state is showing a downward trend in positivity rate for COVI-19 tests. The positivity rate for the state, in the last three days is 6.4 percent according to the PAR dashboard. President Robert Travis Scott says that’s an indicator we are on the downside of the most recent surge.
As for hospitalizations, the PAR dashboard shows levels in the third surge well surpassed the second peak over the summer. The peak was 2,069 on January 8th.