The process is starting on changing the name of Louisiana’s lone Army base, Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, which is named after Confederate General and Episcopal Leonidas Polk. Military complexes nationwide will be renamed to help quell ill feelings still being felt over the Civil War and slavery. Fort Polk spokesperson Kavanaugh Breazeale (bruh-ZELL) says the public may suggest a new name online at www.theNamingCommission.gov…:
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Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says the infrastructure bill signed this week contains 65-billion dollars to expand broadband around the country. Cassidy says this will improve economic development in rural areas…
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It’s Apprenticeship Appreciation and Awareness Week and the Louisiana Workforce Commission is celebrating with job fairs. Brooke Thorington has more.
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New Orleans says it will keep its vaccine mandate in place to enter restaurants and many businesses through Mardi Gras in an effort to make sure the carnival season can happen safely. LSU is lifting its indoor mask mandate on the Baton Rouge campus.

Warm today, cold front arrives tomorrow with some rain.