This morning the greater New Orleans’ Jewish Community will hold a news conference urging the state not to use lethal gas to execute death row inmates.

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The grandparents of one of the 14 people killed during the New Year’s Day terror attack on Bourbon Street were killed by an alleged drunk driver over the weekend. Gretna Police say 33-year-old Stephan Jaurez has been booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on multiple charges, while Victoria and Hubert Gauthreaux are both dead after they were hit by Juarez’s vehicle while attempting to leave their parked vehicle. The Gautreaux’s were the grand parents of 21-year-old Hubert Gauthreaux the III who was among the victims of the Bourbon Street terror attack.

For decades Louisiana has had an outmigration problem. Doctor Allison Plyer, the chief demographer at the Data Center, says the biggest culprit is a lack of economic growth…

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In fact, Plyer says since 2000, Louisiana’s job market has grown by just two-percent, while the country as a whole has grown its job market by 20-percent in that same time frame

According to a new report from Wallethub, Louisiana residents spend the fifth highest percentage of income on groceries, with the average cost of groceries at 115-dollars or two-percent of your median monthly household income…

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That’s Wallethub analyst Chip Lupo who says people in Mississippi spend the highest percentage of income on groceries.