A legislative effort to stop a rule requiring students 16 and older from needing to show proof of a COVID vaccine in order to attend is defeated in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A study from the National Oceanic at Atmospheric Administration says there’s a potential link in the decline of air pollution to the increase in the number of hurricanes. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Students 16 and older will likely be required to show proof of a COVID vaccination to attend school this fall. A House resolution preventing that rule from going into effect was rejected by a Senate committee. Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau voted against the effort to block the rule because parents can submit a written exemption…
House and Welfare Chairman Larry Bagley says most parents are not aware of the opt-out provisions. Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill testified in favor of Bagley’s resolution and she says L-D-H is not doing the state a good service by pressing this vaccine on children…
Murrill says her son ended up in the ICU with myocarditis after receiving a second Pfizer COVID vaccine. Numerous people testified that schools should not have the COVID vaccine on the list of required shots. But Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow, who lost her husband to COVID in December of 2020, feels differently…
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted against Bagley’s resolution on a four to three vote.
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Congresswoman Julia Letlow has been chosen to fill an empty seat on the House Committee on Appropriations. The committee is responsible for funding the Federal government’s vital programs. Letlow says it’s an honor to be chosen for such a powerful committee and to help the Bayou State.
Letlow says the committee seat will help her fulfill campaign promises for her district, which include increasing broadband access to rural areas of the state and supporting the needs of Louisiana farmers.
Letlow, a former teacher, says the appointment will allow her the ability to see that education is properly funded. While teaching she says she’s witnessed firsthand how education can take someone from poverty to prosperity.
Letlow is the first Louisianan to serve on House Appropriations since 2013.
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A NOAA study says there’s a potential link in the decline of air pollution to the increase in the number of hurricanes. State Climatologist Barry Keim says efforts in North America and Europe to improve the environment have shown a surge in Atlantic hurricanes.
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Keim says the logic behind these findings is due to particulate pollution. He says pollution blocks out the sun’s rays and off of the heavily polluted Asian coast it leads to cooler sea surface temperatures and as a result fewer typhoons. But in contrast closer to home…
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Environmental efforts in the US have decreased pollution by about 50-percent which Keim says has created a much cleaner and more transparent atmosphere allowing the sun to heat sea surface temperatures.
While Keim expects the research to be heavily scrutinized and says there’s a tradeoff by having a cleaner environment which helps reduce lung disease and environmental cancers.
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A bill that would let Louisiana colleges and boosters of their athletic programs pay student-athletes as part of name, image and likeness deals continues to advance through the Louisiana legislator. Marrero Senator Patrick Connick is the author of the proposal and got the bill through the House Education Committee
The head of LSU’s NIL department Taylor Jacobs says the intent of this legislation is not to allow a booster organization to pay a student-athlete as a recruiting inducement
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The NCAA says it will begin to enforce what is known as pay for play payment arrangements, which have been used to get recruits to sign at a school. The NCAA says it will begin enforcing these type of arrangements and UL System President Jim Hightower says this legislation is not in violation of NCAA policy…