State lawmakers began a special session today called to redraw a Congressional map with two Black majority districts. Republican House Speaker Clay Schexnayder believes the Congressional district map they approved in February with one majority district is fair and constitutional, but they will begin hearings on Friday to debate other proposals…
The Black Legislative Caucus is supporting identical map proposals from Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields and New Orleans Representative Royce Duplessis that create two majority-minority districts. Duplessis says a federal judge has ordered the Legislature to do this…
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the session is set to end Monday, while legislative leaders will ask a federal judge tomorrow for more time to approved a map.
For the second summer in a row, Louisiana is seeing an increase in RSV, the respiratory virus that usually causes wintertime colds in children. Dr. Mark Klein, physician in chief at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans says the RSV surge has also been responsible for placing some children in intensive care. He says severe cases of RSV are usually limited to infants in their first year of life.
There’s a potential sign gas prices are peaking because Louisiana did not set a new record today for a statewide average. The average remains $4.55 for a gallon of regular gasoline. Associate Director of the Tulane Energy Institute Eric Smith says the flow of gasoline around the world has been disrupted due to ban on Russian oil. But even if the ban ended tomorrow, it would take a while for gas prices to moderate…