If Lt Governor Billy Nungesser gets his wish, the state’s first float to appear in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will steal the show. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Republican state legislators are voicing opposition to a Department of Health proposal to require COVID-19 shots for kids to attend schools. The mandate would apply only to age groups approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for non-emergency use situations – which is currently 16 and older. However, Baton Rouge area state Senator Bodi White says mandating shots for any age group is wrong…:
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The LDH proposal would allow parents to opt-out of their kids having the shots, by signing a statement of exemption.
The Thanksgiving holiday travel crunch is upon us with experts predicting more than 53 million people will hit the air, roads and waterways to share the love and dinner with others. Triple-A’s Don Redman says for those traveling by air, there are bargains to be found for the flight itself, but you may face higher expenses elsewhere.
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As for gas prices, they are holding mostly steady in Louisiana right now, with the statewide average price of regular at around three-12 a gallon compared to a dollar-84 last year at this time.
Louisiana is marking its second-largest season over-the-month increase in employment in decades. That’s the word from Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Cates who says the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Ida has had a large impact on the state’s employment situation with a seasonally-adjusted non-farm gain of more than 34 thousand jobs in October.
The largest gains were seen in leisure and hospitality, as well as construction.