The Public Service Commission meets at 9 AM and the first item on the agenda will be the two winter storm events that knocked out power for tens of thousands. Entergy, Cleco, SWEPCO, and a handful of co-ops will explain to the P-S-C what happened. Commissioner Foster Campbell says the objective is accountability.
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MISO, the super-regional power authority that ordered the statewide rolling blackouts last week, will also be on hand to report to the PSC.
Based on the latest data, the number of homeschooled students in Louisiana has grown by four percent. President of Homeschool Louisiana Christopher Chin says homeschooling has risen in the last five years by 23-percent and there are over 35-thousand homeschooled in Louisiana…
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Chin says there’s no doubt that the COVID pandemic has resulted in more parents choosing to homeschool their children.
To assist the citizens of Shreveport as the city enters a second week with a collapsed water system, Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder along with other lawmakers helped collect 150-thousand bottles of water.
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Several locations have been established in Caddo Parish to distribute water at noon.
Tiger Woods was reportedly headed to meet Saints QB Drew Brees and other celebrities for a production shoot when he crashed his borrowed S-U-V. Woods is recovering after a lengthy surgery on his lower right leg and ankle.