President Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday over his role in allegedly inciting the deadly mob assault on the U.S. Capitol last week. Matt Doyle has more from Louisiana’s House delegation…
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The Fifth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a group of bars in the Lafayette and the New Orleans areas who have asked the courts to block the governor’s coronavirus restrictions that have kept bars from opening during the pandemic. The governor’s office says it’s the ninth time a court has ruled in the favor of the state’s public health orders.

The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing two billion dollars in improvements in southeast Louisiana to a 30 mile stretch of the Upper Barataria levee system. Corps Flood Risk Management Section Chief Travis Creel says a big part of the project involves the existing levee in St. Charles Parish, which is only six to seven feet tall.
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The project needs Congressional approval and if approved construction would begin in 2023.

According to the personal finance website Wallethub, smoking costs a Louisiana smoker one-point-eight billion dollars over a lifetime. The cost was based on the average pack-a-day smoker beginning at age 21 and ending at 69. Wallethub analyst Jill Gonzales says they have figured the health care cost for a lifetime smoker is 113-thousand dollars…
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