Republican State Senator Sharon Hewitt officially joined the race for governor today. She’s not getting much support in the polls and Hewitt criticizes the state Republican Party for endorsing Landry well before qualifying.
Hewitt is the fourth main candidate to qualify for governor. Landry qualifies this afternoon and tomorrow Republicans Stephen Waguespack and Richard Nelson will qualify.
The Louisiana Department of Health is set to give bonus payments to more than 14 thousand eligible direct support workers who served waiver participants during the pandemic. LDH Assistant Secretary Julie Foster Hagen says workers have to be currently employed with an agency and meet certain requirements….
Workers will receive payments within two to four weeks. A second round of payments will go out in August and September.
Cases of Alpha-gal syndrome are on the uptick, and persons infected are allergic to red meat. Brooke Thorington has more
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Governor John Bel Edwards calls for the state’s Board of Pardons to hear the clemency applications from 56 death row inmates seeking to have their sentences commuted. Edwards’s announcement comes after the Pardon Board returned the applications citing they would violate their own rules to hear them within a year of their final approval. Earlier this year inmates on death row flooded the Pardon Board with requests. Prosecutors statewide have come out against clearing the state’s death row. Only two clemency requests have been granted since the death penalty was instated in the 1970s.