Named for a Confederate general, Fort Polk – in Vernon Parish – will soon get a new moniker. Kevin Gallagher reports on the selection process…:
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As a result of a low number of COVID cases, LSU is lifting its indoor mask mandate. The state health department reported just nine COVID deaths yesterday and the number of COVID patients in the hospital statewide is 209.

Governor John Bel Edwards holds his monthly radio call-in show today at 2 PM.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says the massive infrastructure bill signed into law this week contains 65-billion dollars in grants for broadband deployment. Cassidy says this could lead to economic development in rural parishes…
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Cassidy says Louisiana is also one of eight stats that will share 150-million dollars in grants to improve economic and community growth.

The “Just Check” campaign is being launched by the Louisiana Department of Health in an effort to address the rising number of syphilis cases in the state. Chaquetta Johnson is the Deputy Director of Operations for the Louisiana STD/HIV Hepatitis Program:
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Johnson notes that syphilis is a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection that had been on the decline, but has been increasing in the northeast part of the state.