Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry says Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has been an obstacle in efforts to carry out executions of death row prisoners. The governor has responded by saying there’s a lack of availability of drugs to carry out lethal injections…
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But Landry says Louisiana could expand the options to carry out a lethal injection, which has happened in other states.

A handful of protesters attempted to stop Governor Edwards from walking into the L-R-N studios for his Ask the Governor monthly call-in show. They are upset over the construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline…
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Edwards says he’s spoken with St. James Parish officials and there are no major concerns about the pipelin.

LSU P-H-D student Felix Santiago-Collazo is working on developing a new hurricane computer model that predicts both rainfall runoff and storm surge. Santiago-Collazo wants to make sure emergency planners take into account the combined effect of both rainfall and storm surge during a hurricane…
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Felix hails from Puerto Rico and survived the devastating Hurricane Maria last September.

Congressman Ralph Abraham of Richland Parish will have a major say on what the final version of the Farm Bill will look like. He’s been named a member on the conference committee that will attempt to iron the differences between the House version of the Farm Bill and what the Senate passed. The current Farm bill expires in September.