2:30 PM Newscast
The DEA is reducing the number of opioids that pharmaceutical companies are allowed to make for the third year in a row as the opioid addiction crisis continues to claim on average 115 American lives a day. Prescription opioids will see a ten percent reduction in production. Senator John Kennedy praised the organization for the reductions but says laws regulating the production of opioids need major changes.
As prepares to hold LSU holds its second preseason scrimmage this weekend, Head Coach Ed Orgeron is hoping to see it go better than the previous. During a press event Wednesday, Orgeron said there were way too many penalties—mostly false starts and holding—that put the offense in long-yard situations. He thinks part of that will clear up because the team no longer has to run four quarterbacks.
Attorney General Jeff Landry is defending the 7-6 vote of the Bond Commission to exclude Citibank and Bank of America as part of a $600 million road financing plan in the state. Both were omitted from the financial plan after placing gun control regulations on commercial banking customers. Landry says the state will not deal with companies that attempt to interfere with Second Amendment rights.
Since taking office in January 2017, US Congressman Mike Johnson has held thirty-one town hall meetings in the state’s fourth district, adding three more this past week. Although the conflicts have recently cooled down, Johnson says other politicians were deterred by protestors.