If you’re an adult who is fully vaccinated, the state recommends you get a booster shot as the Holidays approach. State health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter explains why it’s a good idea to get a COVID booster shot even if you are fully vaccinated..:
Cut 15 (08) “…bit with time”
You can choose any vaccine for the boost.

Louisiana receives an F on the latest March of Dimes report card on preterm births. That’s due to the rate of 13-percent. Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell is the state medical director of the Perinatal Quality Collaborative. She says Louisiana is moving in the right direction to change this as a new aid in preterm births is the doula registry established this year requiring midwifery services be covered by insurance…:
CUt 6 (05) “next year”

Governor John Bel Edwards reacts to the fates of two Constitutional amendments decided by voters last Saturday. Both proposals were part of significant tax reforms planned by the state legislature last spring. On his monthly radio program, “Ask the Governor”, Mr. Edwards says the approval of Amendment Two is a big step in streamlining the state income tax code…:
Cut 8 (07) “…revenue neutral overall”
Voters rejected Amendment One, to set up a single, central state sales tax collection agency rather than the 54 the state has currently.

A 75-year-old Louisiana man who has spent about 58 years of his life in prison for the shooting death of an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy when he was 17 was granted parole Wednesday by the Louisiana Parole Board. They say the release of Henry Montgomery, follows a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that mandatory life sentencing without parole for juveniles was cruel and unusual punishment. The Louisiana Parole Board had reviewed Montgomery’s parole request two times previously.