LSU surveyed one-thousand adults and found 50-percent of them have not attended social or religious gatherings that are inconsistent with the state’s stay at home order. Also, 74-percent of the respondents believe the U-S and Louisiana should continue orders that are designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Director of LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab Michael Henderson says the survey was taken during the last two weeks of April…
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Today a House committee hears a resolution that would suspend Governor Edwards’ stay at home order. Conservative Republican lawmakers also started a petition that takes similar action but House Republican Delegation Chairman Blake Miguez says his resolution doesn’t…
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But the Edwards administration says the resolution would shut down the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

Since March 22nd over 400,000 Louisianans have received unemployment assistance from the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the highest number ever recorded. Matt Doyle has more.
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