SafeSource Direct is investing 150-million dollars into the construction of two facilities in Acadiana that will produce personal protective equipment. Brook Thorington reports the projects will create a combined 12-hundred new direct jobs…
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Legislation that would give voters in St. Tammany Parish a chance to decide if they want a riverboat casino in Slidell never came up for a vote in Senate Finance yesterday. It’s a sign the votes are not there to pass it.

The Louisiana House approves a bill that would allow physicians to prescribe the smokable form of medical marijuana to patients. Houma Representative Tanner Magee says 35 states have a medical marijuana program, only Louisiana and Minnesota do not allow the raw or crude form…
Cut 10 (09) “…but they will get this.”
The vote was 73-26 in favor and it heads to the Senate for more discussion.

During a conversation with Michelle Southern the host of the Only in Louisiana Podcast, Trina Edwards, the wife of former four-term governor Edwin Edwards, says her 93-year-old husband is now confined to a wheelchair….
cut 9 (06) “….needed”
Trina says despite the new lifestyle, her husband is not experiencing any major health issues. The two will celebrate their 10-year wedding anniversary in June.