A University of New Orleans telephone poll of 325 registered voters puts Governor John Bel Edwards’ approval rating at 38-percent, down from 56-percent in a similar poll conducted in 2020. Pollster Ed Chervenak says 31-percent of whites approve of Edwards, compared to 55-percent of blacks and age appears to influence perceptions of the governor’s performance…
cut 11 (08) “…18 to 44”

Last year, Governor Edwards vetoed a bill that would allow non-felons to conceal carry a firearm without a permit. That legislation is back this year and Oil City Representative Danny McCormick’s constitutional carry bill will be heard today in the House Criminal Justice Committee…
cut 7 (11) “..amemdnent rights

Cleco announces the company will invest 900-million dollars to reduce carbon emissions at the largest of its nine electric generation units in Louisiana. CEO Bill Fontenot says the work done at the Brame Energy Center in Lena will remove and compress 95-percent or more of the C-O-two emitted and store it in geological formations under the site. Fontenot says nearby private industries can also take advantage…
Cut 4 (12) “…economic development.”
Cleco has named the project Diamond Vault and estimates it will create up to 40 direct jobs and an average of 11-hundred construction jobs in cenla over a three-year period.

A Baton Rouge mom faces 11 counts of cruelty to a juvenile after the S-U-V she was driving flipped over several times. 34-year-old Leticia Brothers had all eleven of her children in the vehicle, but none of them were seriously injured. Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran says the kids were not buckled up…
cut 15 (05) “…can happen”
The Advocate reports that in 2015 the state removed Brother’s nine children from her home after they were found with little food and no beds.