The veto override of legislation banning transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s K-12 and higher ed sports teams clears the first hurdle, passing the Senate with one vote to spare. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell wrote the bill…
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The vote was strictly party line with all Democrats voting against. New Orleans Senator Karen Carter Peterson says 400 major businesses put out a statement calling bills like this discriminatory…
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Afterward, the Senate rejected a veto override of legislation that would have removed the need to have a permit to concealed carry a firearm. That effort appears to be completely dead for the session as a result.
St. Tammany Parish Government is asking residents in parts of Mandeville to stay off the road until floodwaters recede after up to ten inches of rain fell on parts of the area through the morning. St. Tammany Parish Public Information Director Michael Vinsanau says a number of homes flooded, but some of those floods were preventable…
Rain is expected to continue in western St. Tammany through the evening.
Last week LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Clinical Medicine, Doctor Catherine O’Neal said if you choose not to get vaccinated you are choosing death due to the danger the Delta variant poses. Senator Bill Cassidy didn’t disagree…
Today the state reported the 500,000th confirmed positive COVID-19 test since the start of the pandemic last March.