Legislation that would give St. Tammany Parish voters an opportunity to approve a riverboat casino in Slidell receives final legislative passage after the Senate approved the bill on a 23-14 vote.
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Martha White, the Black woman whose action in 1953 Baton Rouge launched the bus boycott in the capitol city died Saturday at the age of 99. It was that boycott that provided the framework for the famous effort sparked by Rosa Parks that led to a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Governor John Bel Edwards and Canadian-based Canfor Corporation announce a new 160-million-dollar lumber mill will be built at the Beauregard Regional Airport. Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the availability of roads and waterways to supply the product helped Beauregard parish secure the contract…
It is expected to create 130 new direct jobs.
A bill to allow social media users in the state to sue platforms like Twitter and Facebook if they are blocked for political or religious speech is dead for this legislative session after the proposal failed to receive a hearing in the House. Republican Monroe Senator Jay Morris believes his bill was deliberately kept from being heard in committee and social media platforms have a chokehold on the flow of information in our country.
The session ends on Thursday.