Republican Senator Bill Cassidy says Louisiana will receive 101 million dollars from the recently approved federal infrastructure bill that will go to local governments who struggle to provide clean drinking water to their residents…
cut 15 (13) “…to it”
And Cassidy says Louisiana can expect similar water infrastructure funding for the next four years.

For the next ten years, new LSU football coach Brian Kelly will be paid about ten million dollars a year to coach the Tigers. Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell believes that kind of money for a football coach is insane…
cut 8 (08) “….on academics”
Campbell wishes the school can raise that kind of money to build a new library on campus.

Venture Global is investing more than $10 billion in a new liquefied natural gas facility in Cameron Parish. Brooke Thorington has more.
Cut 1 (32) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

Governor Edwards will hold a media briefing at 11 AM to discuss COVID-19, including an update on the Omicron variant. So far the variant has not been detected in Louisiana.

Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries says chronic wasting disease, which is fatal to deer, was found in a 2.5-year-old female white-tailed deer just north of the Louisiana-Arkansas border.