Two bills to allow non-felons to conceal carry a gun without a permit in Louisiana are in legislative committees today. Last year Governor Edwards vetoed the legislation because it omitted training. West Monroe Senator Jay Morris’ legislation requires an online hour course on gun safety, but Oil City Representative Danny McCormick’s legislation removes training and the entire permit process.
McCormick’s bill is currently being heard in House Criminal Justice and Morris’s is scheduled in Senate Judiciary C.
A one-vehicle accident in East Baton Rouge Parish involving 11 children results in the driver, Leticia Brothers, who is also the mother of all the children, facing cruelty to juvenile charges. Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran says when officers arrived on the scene Sunday night, they noticed an SUV had flipped several times.
No major injuries were reported.
A new University of New Orleans research poll shows fewer than 40-percent of persons approve of the job Governor Edwards is doing, a similar poll conducted in 2020 showed a 56-percent approval rating. UNO political science professor Dr. Ed Chervenak says it’s not uncommon for a governor to see approval numbers wane as the years wear on, however…:
Cut 12 (13) “…magnitude of the drop.”
Cleco will invest nearly one billion dollars to reduce carbon emissions at their plant in in Lena. CEO Bill Fontenot says they have already secured $9-million in federal monies to help pay for the project and consumers won’t see rate changes.