Governor John Bel Edwards is back from his trip to California where he met with film and TV producers in an effort to grow the state’s movie production industry. Edwards says the executives he spoke with say they have renewed confidence in the stability of the state’s film tax incentive program. Today, Governor Edwards holds a press conference at Avondale shipyard in Jefferson Parish, where he’s expected to restart commerce at the site. The shipyard once employed 26-thousand workers.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality says the growing number of waste tires in urban centers is creating a pollution problem, so effective this month, the cost to recycle waste tires is going up. DEQ Secretary Chuck Brown, on Talk Louisiana, said it’s a modest, but necessary increase.
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There are five such plants statewide that can process old tires in an appropriate manner.

Louisiana Congressman Ralph Abraham is asking the U-S Department of Agriculture to help soybean farmers who have no place to put their crop, because silos are full as a result of the trade dispute with China. Abraham says farmers must choose between harvesting soybeans with no place to bring them or letting them rot in the fields…
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Abraham suggests that the U-S-D-A reach out to private farmers and see who has empty silos.

Interim Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin warns residents that scam arists have been calling potential voters and offering them a chance to register over the phone. In doing so, the fraudsters are trying to collect personal information. Ardoin says if you want to register to vote or change your party affiliation there are secure ways to do so…
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You can register to vote online at Geaux-vote-dot-com.