Adoptees who are 24 and older can now request a copy of their original birth certificate thanks to a state law that went into effect Monday. Elise Lewis, co-founder of the Louisiana Coalition for Adoption Reform says they’ve received positive feedback from adoptees…
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Lewis credits Rosepine Representative Chuck Owens for sharing his personal story of adoption for the bill finally becoming law.

Also becoming law this week is legislation that expands the limit from five thousand to 25-thousand acres for windfarm development. Houma Representative Jerome Zeringue says the wind industry needs about one-thousand acres per turbine…
cut 5 (10) “…economically feasible”

August is when hurricane season starts to really heat up, and Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says prepare now for a possible storm damage claim. Donelon says read your property insurance declaration page thoroughly…:
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Donelon says the Named Storm Deductible applies for hurricanes and tropical storms and requires you to put up 5-percent of your property’s value before insurance kicks in.

A researcher at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is studying female athletes at LSU and nationwide to find better ways to help them cope with mental health. Doctor Tiffany Stewart says little research ahs been done to identify the best resilience-based strategies for athletes…
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One of Stewart’s studies will focus on 50 LSU female athletes to measure their mental, physical, hormonal and immune resilience during normal to high stress periods.