If you prefer celestial events to getting some shuteye, then you’re invited to jump out of bed for a near-total lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning. More from Dave Brannen.
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The state Public Service Commission is looking at ways to help prevent massive power outages after numerous weather-related events have tested the state’s power grids. Brooke Thorington has more
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Weather permitting, folks across Louisiana and elsewhere will be entertained by a nearly total lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning. What you’ll see from Geoff Clayton, who is a professor in the LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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The event will last for several hours peaking at around 3:03 Friday morning.
Professor Clayton says that while the almost-total lunar eclipse will begin around midnight, it will become most noticeable around 2:45 as it turns a reddish color and darkens, reaching its peak just after 3 a.m. Friday.
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Clayton talks about why the lunar eclipse is so interesting to see.
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The Public Service Commission is looking at ways to help prevent massive power outages like the ones that plagued the state in February and then again with Hurricane Ida. District 2 Commissioner Craig Greene says they want to research such options like placing power lines underground, to see if it reduces outages,
District 3 Commissioner Lambert Boissiere says weather-related events are getting more powerful and doing much more damage than in the past to the state’s power grid and they want to look at ways to mitigate damage.
Boissiere says there’s a great need to increase the reliability of the power grid in the state but they want to make sure it doesn’t financially strain consumers as well.
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Preparations are underway for Governor Edwards’ signing of a document officially pardoning the late Homer Plessy for the then-19th century crime of trying to sit in the white section of a segregated train headed to Covington. The governor was asked about the pardon on Wednesday’s “Ask the Governor” program.
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The unanimous posthumous pardon was granted Plessy who died in 1925 last week by the Louisiana Pardons and Parole Board, the pardon required under the state’s Avery C. Alexander Act.
Edwards says the signing ceremony is being carefully considered to include relatives of those involved in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Judge John Howard Ferguson initially found Plessy guilty of the crime during the Jim Crow era.
The governor says the conviction of Plessy should have never happened, and thus the importance of a pardon signing event that matches the circumstances.
A date for the governor’s signing of the pardon has not been announced.
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Senator John Kennedy is pointing the finger of blame at the Biden administration for the dramatic rise in inflation that’s impacting the costs of just about every good and service in the nation. He said on the Senate floor Wednesday:
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Kennedy says the inflation is being spurred on by federal spending and says the nearly two-trillion dollar reconciliation bill still under consideration will only impact the rate of inflation more.
Senator Kennedy says it shouldn’t come as any surprise that inflation is rising at a rate that’s helping to double the price of gasoline and responsible for double-digit increases in the prices of other consumer goods and services.
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Kennedy terms the upward spiral of inflation an “economic cancer” that the Biden administration is proposing a remedy for which that Kennedy says won’t work.
He says he hopes his Democratic friends will give up fueling inflation with “another extremist spending…bill.”