The state’s Workforce Commission has launched a new initative to help Louisiana residents develop new skills and increase their career readiness. It’s called Tech Ready Louisiana and it provides free online access to more than five-thousand courses to help Louisaina residents develop the knowledge and skills needed to find meaningful employment. LWC Secretary Ava Cates…
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She says learners can earn a certificate in three to six months.

Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins has been disqualified for running for re-election. That’s because a Caddo Parish judge says the former U-S Senate candidate failed to qualify properly as he listed the wrong home address on his qualifying papers. La-Politics-dot-com Jeremy Alford says this is an unusual political story…
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Perkins does plan to appeal.

The state health department has provided medical providers with a list of exemption that would allow for an abortion under the state’s new abortion ban. There are some doctors who are concerned that the list of exemptions does not contain enough medical conditions. Tulane University medical school Doctor Cecilia Gambala says the law does allow for abortions under situations NOT listed within the language of the law, but it requires two agreeing doctors to sign off on the procedure…:
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Noodling is now legal in Louisiana. Noodling is fishing for catfish by using your bare hands and Jonesboro Representative Jack McFarland says if you haven’t tried it, you’re missing out…
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McFarland says no one has actually been arrested for noodling, but he wanted to make sure.