Oil City Representative Danny McCormick’s bill to charge a woman who has an abortion with murder was amended on a 65 to 26 vote to remove the homicide charge and it also removed language that could have criminalized in-vitro fertilization and some forms of contraception. La Politics dot com publisher Jeremy Alford says even with the leak of a possible overturn of Roe v Wade the original bill is considered unconstitutional.
McCormick then pulled the bill from the calendar once the bill was amended by Republicans. The bill will most likely not return for this legislative session since the bill’s criminalization element was removed from the legislation. If the original bill had passed it was poised to be one of the most aggressive new restrictions on reproductive rights in the country.
Building a new Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge has been one of the key pieces of Governor John Bel Edwards’s legislative agenda but he’s been met with pushback from lawmakers due to the cost that could total more than $2-billion. Edwards says resistance only pushes the project timeline out even farther and could eliminate matching federal grants.
Termite swarms are out and about in the state and LSU AgCenter urban entomologist Dr. Karen Sun says the Formosan termites you’re seeing are looking to take up residence. In the wild, she says they prefer to consume decayed wood but in more urban areas, they aren’t as finicky.
Cut 6 (10) “…hiding themselves.”
Sun says always have a professional inspect and treat for termites.