Governor Jeff Landry has called on the U.S. Senate, specifically Senator Bill Cassidy, to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Cassidy says he hasn’t decided how he will vote yet.

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Kennedy has his first confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. He’ll go before the Senate Health, Education. Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday and Cassidy chairs that committee.

Louisiana’s streak of job growth continues. Emily DiPalma with the Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state gained 25-hundred non-farm jobs last month. Compared to December of 2023, the total number of jobs increased by more than 20-thousand.

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Health services, private education and construction are three industries that continue to add jobs.

An abundance of trees in Louisiana’s forests is creating an opening for the biofuel industry to thrive. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Louisiana’s Sugar cane crops did not freeze last week despite single digit temperatures as far south as New Iberia. LSU AgCenter sugarcane specialist Doctor Kenneth Gravois says the snow insulated the cane from the cold and the cane varieties that exist today can withstand the cold better…

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