The House Transportation Committee approved a bill to prohibit drivers from using a handheld cell phone while driving. AAA spokesperson Don Redman says the bigger problem is not the talking. The real distractions are texting while driving, the use of social media, and streaming video.
Alexandria defense attorney Ed Tarpley questions how the proposed law would be enforced and believes it’s an overreach of government regulation.
The House Ways and Means Committee has advanced a bill to amend the constitution giving teachers a pay raise.
Like the recently rejected Amendment 2, the plan would be to transform a two-thousand-dollar stipend for teachers and a one-thousand-dollar stipend for other school staff into permanent pay increases. President of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers Larry Carter…
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H-B 573 now goes to the House Civil Law Committee.
Over 30-thousand Caddo and Bossier Parish SWEPCO customers lost power Saturday. Sean Richardson has more.
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Governor Landry is ordering state workers back to the office. State employees were sent home to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Landry said remote work was one of the biggest negative effects of the pandemic.
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Landry says state workers will be required to return to the office July 1st.