Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins joins 33 other mayors in calling on President Biden to support sending Americans recurring checks through the end of the pandemic. The group, which purchased a full-page ad in the Washington Post touting the idea, does not back a specific dollar amount. When asked how these checks would be financed Perkins responded…
The Biden Administration announces a 60-day pause in the issuing of new oil and gas leases on federal land and revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. While the Keystone does not run through Louisiana Associate Director of the Tulane Energy Institute Dr. Eric Smith says we do utilize the sour crude carried by the pipeline.
A Crawfish Specialist projects a healthy crawfish season ahead of us. Matt Doyle has the story.
Governor Edwards will hold an 11am briefing today, he was in DC earlier this week for the Inauguration of President Joe Biden. On Thursday, the state reported 3,856 new COVID-19 cases and 59 fatalities. Hospitalizations total 18-hundred, which has been on a steady decline since January 15th. As for vaccines, LDH says more than 301-thousand have been administered in the state so far.