A bill to raise the base pay of state House & Senate members falls to defeat in the House Appropriations Committee…:
CUT 02 (31) “…Palermo.”
Police in Houma say a local musician was hit in the head by a fallen bullet Saturday while performing outdoors at a downtown bistro. Cops says there was a shooting incident less than a mile away, and the bullet was likely a stray shot from that. The unnamed musician is OK, and is expected to recover.
Legislation to establish a partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in Louisiana advances from House Appropriations. Bogalusa Representative Melinda White’s bill creates the Louisiana Imagination Library Program, which she says will increase kids’ reading skills and also helps their parents…:
CUT 13(12) “…of funding.”
Louisiana ranks 47th in Literacy in the country. That bill moves now to the House floor.
The COVID pandemic caused many Louisiana women to fall behind on regular mammograms, and now that’s becoming all too evident. LSU Health New Orleans Surgical Oncologist Dr. Shawn McKinney says she- like other surgeons – is seeing the repercussions with more patients who have advanced or later stages of breast cancer…:
CUT 03(10) “…advanced disease.”
Mammogram resources can be found online at LBCHP.org.