The US Supreme Court has set a date to revisit Louisiana’s congressional map and decide whether it violates the 14th and 15th Amendments. Last November the court agreed to hear the case challenging the map as illegally gerrymandered but did not rule before the term ended. The case is now scheduled to be reargued on October 15th. At issue is a redrawn district that cuts a diagonal through the state from Shreveport to Baton Rouge.
A Caddo Parish Sheriff’s deputy is on administrative leave after he was arrested for insurance fraud. State Police Trooper Eddie Thomas says a months long investigation has determined 50-year-old Frank Launer of Blanchard got into a wreck last April and did not have automobile insurance and then quickly obtained coverage and filed the claim later that same day. Caddo Parish Sheriff Henry Whitehorn says his office does not condone the alleged actions attributed to Launer and Thomas says Sheriff Whitehorn supports L-S-P’s investigation…
U-S Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is on a “Returning Education to the States” tour and she made Louisiana her first stop. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says Louisiana’s improved reading scores is why she decided to start her tour by visiting Jefferson Terrace Academy in Baton Rouge…
Optimism is up among small businesses according to a new survey released by the NFIB. NFIB state director Leah Long says it’s good to see improving conditions with the 20 percent small business tax deduction being made permanent and new attention to insurance reform, but labor quality remains the single most important problem facing small businesses…