Legislation to enhance and change oversite of the state’s medical marijuana program went into effect this month. Houma Representative Tanner Magee says in addition, to the current nine licensed pharmacies, a tenth one will be added. He says it will be awarded in the greater New Orleans area and the hope is that more pharmacies will make prices more affordable for those who need it.
And the Louisiana Department of Health is now the oversite agency of the program.
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins addresses his disqualification from the fall election and says he will not take the Caddo Parish court’s decision lying down. A lawsuit filed by a Shreveport resident alleged Perkins did not live at the address he listed on qualifying papers, and the judge agreed. Perkins says he is not out of the race yet…:
Cut 9 (08) “…fight for democracy.”
The Louisiana Department of Education says public school students performed better on LEAP tests during the 2021-22 school year after seeing test scores fall in the previous school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says mastery rates for students in grades three through eighth improved three points in both math and English
Brumley says 80 percent of Louisiana school systems improved their mastery rate when compared to 2020-21.