A new study from Bankrate finds Louisiana has a cool housing market and New Orleans and Shreveport are among the coldest for their market size in the country. Bankrate analyst Alex Gailey says a big reason for the sluggish housing market is that many Louisiana residents can not afford to own a home…
Cut 11 (12) “….buy a home”
It is now illegal in Louisiana to handle your cell phone while driving. It’s a secondary offense. That means an officer will not pull you over just for handling your cell phone while driving; but if the officer observed you doing so while committing another moving violation, that would add an additional fine to your citation. Slidell Representative Brian Glorioso says he wrote his bill that way after prior attempts to make it a primary offense failed.
Cut 4 (09) “…pretextual stop issue.”
LSU is ranked ninth in the preseason coaches college football poll. Yesterday, the Tigers volunteered at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. The team supplied nearly 40-thousand meals across 11 parishes in just one hour. Coach Brian Kelly…
Researchers have determined the size of the dead zone off Louisiana’s coast is the size of Connecticut. The dead zone is an area in the Gulf of America that has low to no oxygen, because of high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous that flowed into the Gulf from the Mississippi River. LSU Oceanography Professor Nancy Rabalais says the Gulf has two layers of water: a warmer, fresher top layer, with a colder, saltier one beneath. She says this leads to the dead zone along the ocean floor.