To assist with Hurricane Ian’s recovery, some 250 Louisiana National Guardsmen have been deployed. Brooke Thorington has more.
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After making landfall on Florida’s southwestern coast, Ian is now a tropical storm over central Florida. Louisiana climatologist Barry Keim says the damage left behind by Ian will be horrendous…
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What if your empty glass bottle could be used to protect Louisiana’s coast? Tulane University has received a five million dollar federal grant to see if sand from crushed glass bottles can work in coastal restoration projects. Dr. Julie Albert says small scale experiments have shown potential.
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A new business owned by Tulane alumni –Glass Half Full –is collecting glass in New Orleans to crush it and use it to make sand to build up the coast.

Congressman Clay Higgins main challenger in his re-election campaign, Holden Hoggatt, has released a political ad that’s a parody of his old Crime Stopper videos when Higgins worked at the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. The campaign ad calls Higgins a fraud and says Higgins is wanted for impersonating a congressman. Higgins response…
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