A new program goes into effect today to help speed up the verification process for Louisianans filing for unemployment. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Cates says ID.me will help ensure the correct person collects benefits.
Legislation that would have established a closed party primary system for Louisiana congressional elections gets shelved for the session. Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt wrote the bill. She says under the current jungle primary system voters don’t have much incentive to make sure they register with a party that matches their views.
The bill had a 5.5-million-dollar price tag due to the need to hold additional election cycles.
A New Orleans legislator Mandie Landry pulls her bill to decriminalize prostitution. There were about three hours of testimony on the proposal in a House committee yesterday, Landry saw that the opposition was too great…
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Landry filed the bill after hearing from women who say sex work is a form of labor if it’s consensual.
For restaurants looking for federal assistance to recover pandemic-related revenue losses, they can now apply for funding through the S-B-A’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund. Louisiana Restaurant Association President Stan Harris…
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For more information go to S-B-A-dot-gov.