11:30 LRN Newscast Oct 25

Booster shots are now available and depending on which one you got, your age and or medical conditions dictate if you need one. Brooke Thorington explains.

Cut 1 (32) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

 

An additional 65-million-federal-dollars are being allocated to Louisiana for transportation and infrastructure projects. That word comes from Congressman Garret Graves who believes “the flexibility of these specific funds will help solve real transportation needs in our community immediately.”

Cut 9 (07)  “…are right now.”

There are four constitutional amendments on the November 13th statewide ballot, and Louisiana’s governor says he’s all for two of them. Amendment One would authorize a centralized state tax collecting authority. Currently, there are numerous such Authorities in different cities across the state. Governor John Bel Edwards says he would like to see the amendment pass…:

 

Cut 10 (10)  “…their support for this.” 

 

Three weeks after the governor announced the Louisiana-managed FEMA-funded Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program, 13-hundred travel trailers have been purchased by the state for use by the storm’s victims who were left at least temporarily homeless by the damage. At least 31 of the trailers have been set up in St. Charles, Terrebonne and St. James parishes. Another 61 units are staged at locations in the five parishes hardest hit by Ida to await installation. Nearly 500 are at staging areas at Blue Bayou Water Park and the Houma Civic Center.