Governor John Bel Edwards said on his monthly radio show that the rollout of the first coronavirus doses to states has gone smoothly as the state has received 39-thousand doses which are going to frontline healthcare workers. U-S Senator Bill Cassidy says vaccine compliance will be the key to ending the pandemic and restarting the economy…
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It will take months before enough people are vaccinated and her immunity can be achieved.

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser has put the blame on New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell for keeping Lauren Daigle from performing on A-B-C’s Dick Clark Rockin on New Year’s Eve. But a NOLA-dot-com report says Daigle was never booked and New Orleans will still be featured during the broadcast. Nungesser is sticking by his story…
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Nungesser appeared on Talk Louisiana this morning.

The Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Consumer Services with the Louisiana Department of Insurance told state lawmakers today that they still have 250 disaster complaints open and most of the complaints are the result of claim delays and estimate amounts. Jeffrey Zewe says the estimate from an adjuster is just an estimate on what it will cost to repair the damage
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There’s now a wasp named after former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. LSU Ag Center entomologist Nathan Lord says one of his grad students discovered a particular wasp that didn’t have a name so he named it after the Heisman Trophy winner…
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Lord says the wasp was found in Malaysia and they don’t know how many of these type of wasps exist.