Louisiana Senators are split on whether Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is constitutional. Senator John Kennedy says it’s not because a private citizen can not be impeached, but Bill Cassidy voted yes after watching Trump’s team of lawyers make the case the trial should not happen…
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The Louisiana Republican Party says it is profoundly disappointed by Senator Cassidy’s vote.

Governor John Bel Edwards has announced the current COVID-19 mitigation rules will remain in place for another three weeks. But Edwards says if residents continue to mask up and practice social distancing, he’s bullish on the possibility of relaxing restrictions in March…
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The House and Senate Natural Resources Committees hold a joint meeting this morning to address the Biden Administration’s executive orders concerning the oil and gas industry…
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Louisiana has hired a firm to build a 14-million dollar coastal research center at Nicholls State University. Thibodaux-based Duplantis Design Group will design the center that will study the effects of land loss in the Terrebonne and Atchafalaya Basins. Nicholls President Jay Clune says when the school was founded in 1948, the university was 50 miles from the Gulf Coast and now it’s 24 miles away.