Plenty of reaction to Governor Landry’s executive order that halts all new proposed carbon capture projects. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Governor Landry is hoping the National Guard will be deployed to Louisiana in less than a month. Last month, Landry requested that the federal government provide funding to deploy one-thousand Guardsmen to Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport to assist local law enforcement in crime fighting.

Did race play too much of a factor in drawing Louisiana’s Congressional map that now has two majority Black districts? The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office made the argument before the Supreme Court yesterday that race played too much of a factor in creating the second majority district that led to the election of Democrat Cleo Fields. A-G Liz Murrill hopes to hear a ruling from the Supreme Court soon…

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Supporters of the state’s current congressional map since a third of the state’s eligible voters are Black, two of the state’s six Congressional districts should be drawn to allow a minority represent those districts.

Today in Ascension Parish, Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says ground will be broken on a highway project that’s needed for the new Hyundai Steel Mill in Donaldsonville. A recent report suggested that Hyundai had some concerns about building their new steel mill in Louisiana, but Bourgeois says the project remains on track…

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