President Biden will visit New Orleans and Lake Charles today to promote his plan to raise corporate taxes in order to pay for billions of dollars in upgrades to roads and bridges. DOTD Secretary Shawn Wilson says the President’s Getting America Back on Track Tour is comparable to former President Franklin D Roosevelt’s response to the Great Depression…
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The President will speak in front of the Calcasieu River Bridge this afternoon, which is 20 years past its designed lifespan.

State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says Louisiana’s COVID percent positivity rate is below three percent with six out of nine medical regions seeing week-to-week case decreases.…
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But state officials are concerned about the declining demand for the COVID vaccine.

Louisiana residents 21 years and older can carry a concealed handgun without a permit under a bill approved by the House. Belle Chasse Representative Mack Cormier was one of 73 House members who voted for the measure…
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28 Representatives voted against. A similar measure has also passed the Senate, both bills could be vetoed because Governor Edwards says the training needed to get a permit should stay in place.

A CDC report shows the U-S birth rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than a century. For women between the ages of 20 and 34, the birth rate has declined at least four percent from 2019 to 2020. LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Doctor Robert Maupin says this is reflecting a cultural shift among young women…
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Birth rates for women in their late 30s and 40s have increased slightly.