The state sees another 40,000 new residents file for unemployment and as of last week 325,000 qualified beneficiaries were paid out. Many lawmakers appear to be impressed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s ability to handle the record-breaking crush of applications, including Natchitoches Representative Kenny Cox who thanked executive director Ava Dejoie at a Committee hearing earlier today…
One LWC model predicts the trust fund paying out state benefits only has about another four months of money in it if claims were to remain at current levels, but those claims could dip as the state enters Phase One of the limited economic reopening tomorrow.
Bars, spas, and a few other sectors won’t be starting up Friday, and Louisiana Department of Health Assistant Secretary Alex Billioux says it’s just not safe to open those businesses yet…
LSU executive deputy athletics director Verge Ausberry says it will not be the NCAA who will determine if the Tigers will kick off their football season in September. Ausberry says that decision will be made by the SEC and university leaders. He says they are planning for numerous scenarios
Ausberry hopes student-athletes can get back on campus in June.
Covington Senator Patrick McMath’s legislation banning drivers from touching their cell phone while driving breezes through the Senate and is headed to the House floor. Some opponents raised concerns that the potential new law would give police the authority to violate constitutional property rights just for seeing you fiddling with your phone, but McMath says…
McMath says Louisiana’s current law prohibiting texting and driving is impossible to enforce because if the police pull someone over for texting and driving, a driver can say they were using the phone for some other function.