A third COVID-19 vaccine will become available in Louisiana this week as an estimated 38-thousand Johnson and Johnson vaccines will arrive. Tulane School of Medicine Professor Doctor Lisa Morici says The J-and-J vaccine has an efficacy rate of 66-percent, which is not as high as the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines….
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Governor John Bel Edwards has proposed a 400-dollar pay raise for teachers in his budget for next fiscal year. But Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana Director Keith Courville says that’s far too little to help the state hit the southern regional average for teachers’ pay…
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The average teacher salary in Louisiana is about four-thousand dollars less than the Southern Regional Average.

Lousiana Senator Bill Cassidy said on C-N-N’s Face the Nation that it’s not a good idea for the Republican party to idolize former President Donald Trump or put one person on a pedestal. Meanwhile, Trump called the seven Republicans who voted to impeach him, grandstanders.

The National Hurricane Center is discussing whether to move the Atlantic hurricane season up by two weeks to May 15th. Brooke Thorington has more
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