The Chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport, Dr. GE Ghali, has been placed on administrative leave as a result of several federal EEOC complaints filed against the school alleging discrimination and sexual misconduct towards female employees by administrators and cover-ups and retaliation for reporting. Ghali says he strongly denies those allegations.
Johnson and Johnson vaccine usage in Louisiana has been put on hold after the CDC and FDA recommended pausing use after several incidents of blood clots were linked to use of the vaccine. Tulane School of Medicine Professor Doctor Lisa Morici says six women were diagnosed with blood clots six to thirteen days after their injection.
According to the Louisiana Department of Health 85,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been administered in Louisiana.
Lawmakers appear to be warming to a proposal to centralize sales tax collection. House Speaker Clay Schexnayder brought the proposal to a House committee where it received positive reviews. Schexnayder proposes using a single board to collect local and sales taxes, which would make it easier on small businesses and assure the right amount of taxes is collected…
The City of New Orleans will be the backdrop for the first movie production to leave the state of Georgia amid protest of the state’s new voting laws. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s spokesperson, Beau Tidwell, says this could be the first of many productions leaving Georgia and relocating to Louisiana.
Emancipation will be the second Apple TV production filmed in Louisiana. The Tom Hanks feature Greyhound was shot in Baton Rouge in 2019