6:30 A.M. LRN News 04/23/21

The restaurant industry continues to face hurdles with the pandemic but instead of a lack of customers, it’s employees. Louisiana Restaurant Association President Stan Harris says members are having trouble finding enough workers.
Cut 7 (11) “…currently.”

House Health and Welfare advances legislation expanding the state medical marijuana program to include smoke-able “raw” marijuana.
Bill author, Houma Representative, and Republican Tanner Magee says our neighbors in Mississippi and Arkansas have OK’d the sale, and we need to catch up or our state’s program could collapse…
Cut 10 (08) “..relief.”

There are troubling signs that the nation’s vaccine campaign may be slowing down. Matt Doyle has more.
Cut 1 (29) “…I’m Matt Doyle”