Based on data collected by the Public Affairs Research Council, Louisiana has the second highest incarceration rate in the country. PAR President Steven Procopio says Mississippi was number one…
Following Mississippi and Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama rank in the top five for the highest incarceration rates.
Feed Second Line Founder Devin De Wulf wants to install solar panels on restaurants in the Crescent City to preserve food during outages after hurricane and they can also be cooling and phone charging stations for the neighborhood. He’s hoping the idea will take off and become a mainstay for a state that’s embattled with hurricane recovery.
He says instead of relying on other states to provide support after hurricanes we need to give ourselves the tools to do it on our own.
Friday was National Oyster Day, and the Bayou State is very familiar with the well-loved seafood, but the local industry has been in serious recovery mode thanks to the last two hurricane seasons. Oyster Task Force Chairman Mitch Jurisich says they are starting to see oyster spawns.
He says Louisiana is still the number one oyster producer in the world but hanging on by a thread.
The Great American Seafood Cookoff is in New Orleans today in at the Convention Center and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says the cooks have a limited amount of time to cook up their best seafood dish in front of a live audience and nationally acclaimed judges…
Yes you’re craving seafood now and you’re not alone.