An effort to require cable and internet providers to give an automatic refund if they are not able to provide services for more than 24 hours during a declared disaster is dead for this legislative session. The Louisiana Senate rejected the bill on a 23-15 vote. There’s a push to increase broadband internet in rural areas and Minden Senator Robert Mills expressed concern this measure could impact those efforts…
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Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields argued customers should never be forced to pay for a service they do not receive.

According to the 2022 Louisiana Survey about three-fourths of homes in the state have broadband internet access. LSU Public Policy Research Lab Director Mike Henderson says of the remaining 25-percent who don’t, 40-percent say it’s not available and 60-percent say it’s too expensive.
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At the state capitol today, the House Labor Committee has been debating bills to raise the minimum wage. Supporters are not finding much success as the panel has already rejected proposals to increase the minimum wage to 12-dollars an hour, increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees and also a proposal to implement a minimum wage for state workers. Similar efforts have been rejected by this committee before and Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…
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Tonight, LSU cornerback Derek Stingley junior could be a top ten pick in the first round of the NFL draft. His coach at Dunham High School in Baton Rouge, Neil Weiner, says he’s been hearing from teams for years looking for inside info on the budding star.
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Stingley has been considered a first-rounder since he dominated the SEC as a freshman for the 2019 national champions.