The latest COVID numbers indicate the state may have reached a peak, but the stats also show the Omicron variant has been the hardest one yet for children…
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Wintry precipitation is falling across south Louisiana this morning. So far no reports of any significant accumulation. The next couple of days will be colder than normal. Governor John Bel Edwards asks Louisiana residents to check on the elderly…
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High temperatures will return to the 50s on Sunday.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is back for 2022; at the Fairgrounds and on its traditional dates, the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May. Jazz Fest director and producer Quint Davis says this year’s roster of performers has something for everyone…:
Cut 4 (10) “…Stevie Knicks, Billy strings, Nora Jones.”
There was no 2020 Jazz Fest due to the pandemic, and a planned FALL Jazz Fest for 2021 fell apart amid the Delta surge.

Governor John Bel Edwards was in Shreveport yesterday for the announcement of American Electric Power’s investment of $100-million to develop a transmission control center in the city. Edwards says the plant will create 20 direct jobs with an average annual salary of $115 thousand…:
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Edwards says AEP has committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.