Property owners across the state are bracing themselves for skyrocketing National Flood Insurance premiums that take effect today. US Senator Bill Cassidy says the President could stave off the rate hikes with an executive order and there’s bipartisan support to spare consumers…:
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The revamped NFIP “Risk Rating 2.0” system prices flood insurance by property individually; instead of by flood zone.
AccuWeather’s predictions for the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season calls for 16 to 20 named storms. State Climatologist Barry Keim says La Nina played a big role in the last two hurricane seasons and could play a factor this year too.
Cut 9 (12) “…breaking season.”
Congresswoman Julia Letlow’s first bill to pass in the house is one that’s personal, the COIVD-19 American History Project Act which tasks the Library of Congress to record stories of those, like herself, that lost a loved one to COVID. Letlow says the act also allows those on the front lines to participate too.
The legislation now heads to the Senate.
New Orleans is set to host the NCAA men’s Final Four for the sixth time this weekend. Jay Cicero, CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, says the quartet of basketball bluebloods involved: Kansas, Villanova, Duke, and North Carolina, are as good as it gets.
New Orleans last hosted in 2012, generating more than $7 million in tax revenue for the state.