Governor Edwards says the latest metrics indicate the state is trending in the right direction in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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State officials are also watching the tropics and so should you as there are two tropical depressions that the National Hurricane Center expects will be hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico next week. One of the potential storms could impact southwest Louisiana, the other southeast Louisiana on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin got very emotional as he discussed his fall election plan to a Senate Committee. Governor Edwards has called the proposal woefully inadequate as he says it does not allow people who are ordered to quarantine to mail-in their ballot and the governor says it also forces people who are susceptible to the virus to vote in person. But Ardoin believes his plan has the best chance to be implemented….
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Under Ardoin’s plan, the only COVID-related reason for a mail in ballot is if a voter tests positive during early voting or in the days before the election.

As the deadline to complete the 2020 Census looms, the Bayou State is falling short in responses, which could put the state in danger of losing federal funding. U-S Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the national response rate to the Census is 64-percent and Louisiana is at 58-percent.
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Go to census-dot-gov to fill out the census.