Were you one of the many Louisianans missing your Facebook fix yesterday? Thousands want to know what happened, and tech whiz Haggai Davis, host of the Tech Gumbo radio show in Baton Rouge, says Facebook was doing a system upgrade to the Border Gate Protocol when everything went dark. He says this sort of thing doesn’t happen often, but programmers are human and it will happen again…:

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Facebook and subsidiaries like Instagram were down for over six hours Monday.

The small Jefferson Parish town of Lafitte is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida. Mayor Tim Kerner said this morning that the town’s housing stock suffered a major loss from Ida more than a month ago…:

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He says some residents could be out of their homes for nearly a year.

U.S. Senator John Kennedy has an announced challenger for the 2022 election. Democrat Luke Mixon, a 42-year-old commercial pilot, says he can unseat the Republican incumbent Kennedy. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says that’s a mighty big task for an unknown candidate…:

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Mixon contends Kennedy has cast votes to block billions of dollars to improve our infrastructure and protect the state from natural disasters. Kennedy defends his votes as not wasting taxpayer dollars.

LSU cornerback Derek Stingley has an endorsement deal. New NCAA rules allow college athletes to accept such deals and Stingley’s is with WAITR, a Louisiana-founded restaurant delivery service. WAITR’s Dean Turcol says Stingley will give out a delivery discount code on his social media next week…:

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