Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill say Louisiana will not have US House elections using the current Congressional map, after the U-S Supreme Court ruled the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.  Shreveport Senator Alan Seabaugh says since the Supreme Court is the final word a new map must be approved before the U-S House elections can take place…

Cut 6 (11) “…exist anymore”

Early voting for the federal primary elections begin Saturday. Seabaugh says the U-S Senate Primary can go on as scheduled, but the U-S House elections should be postponed until a new map is drawn. LSU political science professor Robert Hogan says a new map will not be kind to Sixth District Congressman and Democrat Clee Fields…

Cut 8 (07) “….will be elected”

Ground has been broken on the new two-point-three billion dollar I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles. When Governor Landry took office in 2024, he made it one of his priorities to find a way to fund a new Lake Charles Bridge. His solution was a public-private partnership with Calcasieu Bridge Partners that will use federal, state and toll dollars to build the bridge. Landry says 15-percent of the tolling revenues will go right back into the area.

Cut 12 (10) “…Imperial Calcasieu forever.”

About three-thousand children and adults in Louisiana live with sickle cell disease, which is a chronic condition that causes intense pain throughout the body. But Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans has started using sickle gene therapy as a functional cure…

Cut 16 (14) “…at home”

That’s the director of the Gene Therapy Program, Doctor Bejamin Watkins.