Republican Senator John Kennedy is expected to have a new challenger for re-election with Democrat Luke Mixon of Baton Rouge announcing he’s throwing his hat in the ring. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Mixon has his work cut out for him in an attempt to unseat Kennedy.
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The 42-year-old Mixon will face off against Kennedy in the 2022 election
Monday’s Facebook outage has some thinking the social media platform was hacked. But Host of Tech Gumbo Haggai Davis says the company was doing an internal system upgrade to the Border Gate Protocol, which acts like the post office to send you to facebook.com and the six-hour outage was reminiscent of a Three Stooges episode.
Louisiana’s only Democratic congressman is optimistic that a deal will be reached soon on a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and more partisan legislation to allocate three-point-five-billion on social spending. More from Dave Brannen.
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The Louisiana Department of Health says a September 25th wedding in Abbeville is linked to a COVID outbreak and all 150 attendees should considered themselves exposed and seek COVID testing. Unvaccinated attendees should quarantine until October 9th.