Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s vendetta against a Lafayette Christian pop star cost the city and state a slot on ABC’s New Year’s Eve programming. Matt Doyle has more.
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But a report from the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate says Daigle was never booked to perform during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve and the television show still plans to feature New Orleans during the telecast, but with a different celebrity emcee.

Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is lobbying for public school employees to be prioritized when more COVID vaccines arrive in Louisiana.
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Nursing home residents and staff are next in line to get the vaccine and the governor’s office has yet to release who will be eligible to get the vaccine during the second phase of the rollout.

There have been polls that show many Americans will elect not to get the vaccine. Safety is one concern. Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Doctor David Lewis says Operation Warp Speed provided vaccine developers with unlimited resources to develop a vaccine to counter the pandemic, but standard FDA safety protocol is enforced.
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