The small community of Lafitte in Jefferson Parish is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida. Mayor Tim Kerner said this morning that the town’s housing stock suffered a major loss when Ida roared ashore more than a month ago. he’s taken steps to get 300 temporary housing units to the town as soon as possible. Kerner indicates the residents of Lafitte are a resilient bunch.
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Monday’s Facebook outage, along with the other social media platforms owned by the company, has many asking what happened and was the company hacked. Host of Tech Gumbo Haggai Davis says it was an internal issue and says only large service providers, like Verizon and companies like Google, work with BGP, and the six-hour outage was reminiscent of a Three Stooges episode.
Republican Senator John Kennedy has a 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.
Louisiana-founded Waitr announced today that LSU All-American cornerback Derek Stingley will promote the food delivery app on his Instagram account. Waitr spokesperson Dean Turcol says they also have similar deals with LSU first baseman Tre Morgan and Alabama linebacker Christian Harris, who is from Baton Rouge. He says Waitr is proud of Louisiana athletes who are starring on the college level and they are thrilled they can now partner with them