Outdoor New Year’s Eve plans aren’t looking so good as most of the state is under an enhanced severe weather threat for the final day of 2020. State Climatologist Barry Keim says a tropical cyclone will push bad weather across the state from Texas towards the Mississippi Delta…
Good news is the threat will be over by New Year’s Day.
State leaders are still in shock at the surprising COVID-related death of 41-year-old Congressman elect Luke Letlow, who won the 5th district runoff just earlier this month. We spoke with Letlow just prior to his win and he spoke highly of his former boss and mentor, retiring Congressman Ralph Abraham, and said it was Abraham who pulled him back into public service in 2014 while he was working for a Denver energy company.
The vitriolic battle between House Republicans and Governor Edwards over COVID restrictions was the top story in state politics for 2020. UL Lafayette Poli Sci Professor Pearson Cross says Louisiana became just another battleground in a nationwide partisan battle that was playing out during the Presidential election…
Road travel was down 24 percent for Christmas but that still means an estimated 81 million people traveled by car for the holiday. That’s not the same story for air travel, where AAA spokesperson Don Redman says only three million Americans traveled by air for the holidays, a whopping 60 percent decrease from last year.
Governor Edwards will hold a 10 AM press conference today addressing concerns about the state’s slow rollout of vaccinations as national reports indicate just a fraction of all vaccines have actually been administered.