Saturday is Buddy Guy Day, as the Blues legend will have a portion of a highway in his hometown named after him. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Louisiana’s Democratic Party responds to some of the claims Congressman Ralph Abraham made against Governor John Bel Edwards. Kevin Barnhart has more…
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Voters head to the polls Saturday to cast their ballots in the special election run off for Secretary of State. Polls open at 7am as Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup takes on Republican Kyle Ardoin. Pollster John Couvillion predicts the race will land in the favor of the GOP.
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Couvillion says a problem Ardoin faces is a lack of name recognition, stemming from a lack of campaign funding, but Couvillion says it likely won’t take away from him too much.
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Couvillion says while Ardoin does not have much money for running a statewide election, Collins-Greenup has even less.
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Polls will be open until 8pm
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The state has declared Saturday “Buddy Guy Day,” and the Blues Legend will attend a ceremony for himself in his hometown of Lettsworth, Louisiana. Guy is a seven-time Grammy award winner, who influenced the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. In an interview with a Baton Rouge radio station, Guy says he’s thrilled about being honored in his native Pointe Coupee Parish town while he’s still around
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During Saturday’s ceremony in Lettsworth, Governor John Bel Edwards and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser will re-name Highway 418 “Buddy Guy Way.” Guy said on a Baton Rouge radio station that he’s played three or four times in the White House, and for dignitaries around the world, but this is the highlight of his life
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Guy performed with bands in Baton Rouge in the early 1950s while he worked as a janitor at LSU. He learned the to play the guitar by using a two-string bow he made and never thought he would really make it
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St. Tammany Parish has been awarded a $25 million BUILD grant to widen I-12. The widening is needed due to unsafe conditions and bottlenecks along a 3.8 mile stretch and comes after four fatalities over Memorial Day weekend this year. St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister says officials worked extremely hard to secure the grant.
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Brister calls the quick turnaround on locking in the money to move forward with construction a huge success in many ways.
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Brister says she announced the application for the grant in mid-July and committed $7.2 million in funding from parish government. The Louisiana Congression delegation offered their written support in a letter to the US DOT Secretary Elaine Choa.
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A timeline for when construction will begin is still to be determined.
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US Representative and now candidate for governor, Republican Ralph Abraham, says Governor John Bel Edwards has been relentless in his effort to raise taxes. But Eric Holl, spokesperson for the 2019 Democratic Coordinator Campaign team, says Abraham’s proposal for over a billion dollars in across the board cuts would have devastated the state…
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In an interview with L-R-N, Abraham said Edwards wants to increase state spending to expand government programs and Louisiana continues to rank last in many meaningful rankings. But Holl says Abraham shouldn’t be talking about fiscal responsibility…
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Abraham also says Louisiana is heading in the wrong direction. But Holl disagrees, based on what’s happen during the first three years of the Edwards administration
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