State Bond Commission members retaliated against New Orleans’ vaccine proof policy today by pausing scheduled funding for the Superdome renovations as well as hospital, school, and other construction projects around the city.
This morning the Saints backtracked on not allowing refunds for unvaccinated season ticket holders, but if fans cancel they lose their season ticket position. Attorney General Jeff Landry says he won’t support releasing these funds until that policy is changed.
And when it comes to construction funds elsewhere in the City Governor Edwards’ Executive Council Matthew Block says not only could this delay construction, but workers might not get paid…
The pause looks set to last at least a month.
Governor Edwards visited the U-L Lafayette campus this afternoon to get an update on the state’s Shot for 100-dollar COVID-19 vaccine initiative that pays college students a hundred dollars to take the shot. Today is in move-in day for U-L Lafayette students. The school’s vice president for research, innovation, and economic development, Ramesh Kolluro, says this program will help vaccinate thousands of students…
Even with a slight decline in hospital patients, Ochsner Health CEO Warner Thomas says nonemergency surgeries are still having to be postponed but they aren’t all elective, they are procedures impacting those with cancer and heart disease and those needing organ transplants.