Starting today, teachers can receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Louisiana Federation of Teachers President Larry Carter…
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Pregnant women are also eligible to be vaccinated, but some wonder is it safe to do so?
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Louisianans aged 55 to 64 years old can also get the vaccine if they have certain health conditions.

Louisiana has experienced the largest spike in drug overdose deaths in the country. That’s according to data from the C-D-C. Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich says drug overdose deaths have been rising the last seven years, despite optimism it would slow.
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Instead, the state saw a 53-percent increase in overdose deaths between July 2019 and July 2020, 17-hundred Louisiana residents O-D during that period.

Mandeville Representative Richard Nelson has filed a bill for the regular session that begins in April that would change the state’s motto from Union, Justice and Confidence to We Live and Die for Those We Love. Nelson thinks that’s a more appropriate motto, but is not pushing to remove the current motto entirely…
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Nelson says it’s only appropriate when new state buildings are constructed that the motto be used, and current structures are not altered.