The state health department announces it’s adopting the C-D-C’s updated guidance that calls for a shorter COVID quarantine period. Instead of 14 days, it’s now ten days or as few as seven with a negative test for those who may have been exposed. Several school superintendents have been pushing to minimize the number of days teachers and students must miss because of positive tests and contact tracing.

DOTD has created trash sculptures as a visual reminder to stop littering. Brooke Thorington has more…
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The lone constitutional amendment on Saturday’s ballot was soundly rejected by voters as it failed on a 76-24 vote. The amendment would have allowed out-of-state residents to sit on college management boards…
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That’s Jeremy Alford, publisher of LA-politics-dot-com. The Louisiana Republican Party came out against the amendment claiming it would lead to rich outsiders doing political favors in an effort to receive such an appointment from the governor.

Metairie Republican Eric Skrmetta has been re-elected to a third and final six-year term on the Public Service Commission, which regulates utility companies. Skrmetta says his goal is to keep utility rates in Louisiana among the lowest in the nation…
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Skrmetta defeated Democrat Allen Borne, a lawyer from New Orleans, in Saturday’s run-off election.