A historic veto override session begins tomorrow, as lawmakers have until the end of Saturday to override any of the governor’s 28 vetoes from the last legislative session…
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Hundreds of people spent this past weekend saying goodbye to a legendary figure in Louisiana’s history. Former four-term Governor Edwin Edwards was laid to rest yesterday in Baton Rouge after a public viewing at the state capitol on Saturday.

Health officials say the latest surge in COVID cases has undone over four months of progress the state made in the fight against coronavirus. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Clinical Medicine Dr. Catherine O’Neal says the Delta variant is a “different beast” than the coronavirus strain that plagued the nation last year…
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She also warns pregnant women could be at higher risk of complications resulting from a Delta infection.

Louisiana Republican U-S Senator Bill Cassidy says the state needs to get its vaccination rates up to fully beat the pandemic. He says vaccines are like seatbelts, you want to have them before the accident happens…
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Based on data provided by the Louisiana Health Department, 36-percent of Louisiana’s population is fully vaccinated against COVID, one of the lowest percentages in the country.