President Trump says the US will not retaliate militarily against Iran for last night’s rocket attack targeting two US bases in Iraq. Congressman Garret Graves says it likely is not a coincidence that the barrage did not kill a single person. He says Iran likely calibrated the attack so as to not provoke a response from the US.
The President says the missile attack will result in new sanctions on Iran.
Louisiana Economic Development reports there was eight billion dollars in new capital investment in 2019 resulting in 12-thousand new jobs. L-E-D Secretary Don Pierson says they have been working to diversify the state’s economy with these new projects
Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game is expected to be a financial winner for southeast Louisiana. LSU fans are expected to be the most prominent fan base in town, and Chief Marketing Officer for New Orleans & Company Mark Romig says they’ll show off why they are the best fans in the world.
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Romig expects the economic impact from the national championship game to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
KingCakeSnob.com launches the fifth annual “Seal of Approval” ranking competition. Spokesperson Andrew Alexander says the biggest criteria when rating king cakes is presentation, flavor, freshness, and uniqueness. He addsthere isn’t necessarily a pattern that is followed when it comes to the voters’ rankings of king cake.