We now have an announced Democrat in the 2023 Governor’s race. Kevin Gallagher reports on the first Dem to jump in…:
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A Harvard Study says allowing your infant to watch TV or tablets could impact their learning and emotional skills later. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The parade season is about to ramp up and Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend. Michelle Southern reports crawfish prices have dropped just in time…
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There is now a declared Democrat in the race to be Louisiana’s next governor. He is Daniel “Danny” Cole, a professional educator and self-described “Christian Conservative with Democratic values.” Cole says, as a teacher at Bolton High in Alexandria, he feels Louisiana does not invest enough of its annual budgets in education…:
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Cole feels he can appeal to the average voter in a way that career politicians cannot, and he can make a runoff election this fall. He says he will be the People’s Democrat for Governor…:
Cole lives in Trout, in LaSalle Parish. He is running as a Democrat, but says – if elected – he will govern in a non-partisan fashion…:
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Cole ran unsuccessfully for state Senate in 2019. To learn more about Danny Cole, find him on Facebook.
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Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the approval of a 45-million dollar incentive fund to attract more insurance companies will provide relief sooner than later for residents struggling with soaring premiums for property coverage. Donelon says the goal is to reduce the number of policyholders who have Citizens Insurance with a private insurer…
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The first incentive program was established after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Donelon estimates there are between 75,000 to 80,000 attract Citizens policies that could find private insurers once they received their incentives and that could happen by the end of March.
Most of the state’s Citizens’ policies are located in the coastal zone, but Donelon expects the incentive fund will attract as many as ten companies who will write policies south of I-10, and that will also provide homeowners in central and north Louisiana with more options for coverage…
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Donelon says in the regular session he’ll urge legislators to get behind a plan to provide grant money to homeowners who want to fortify their homes against 100-mile per hour plus hurricane winds…
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Allowing infants to watch tablets and TV could impair their emotional well-being and academic achievement once they reach the age of 9 according to a Harvard University Study. Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Pediatrician Dr. Susan Fielkow (fell-co) agrees and says it can affect a child’s executive function skills.
She says these particular skills are the basis of one’s academic success and personal relationships.
But Fielkow says there’s a question of whether or not it’s the electronic equipment or screen time that’s somehow affecting the brain…
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The study plans to do further research to determine if screen time caused impairments or if other factors in a child’s environment are responsible for poorer executive functioning. Fielkow says if screen time is a replacement for social interaction, direct parenting, learning, and teaching…
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Crawfish prices have returned to normal levels, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday and parade-filled weekends. That’s according to Crawfish App co-founder Laney King, who says we saw unprecedented high prices for the start of the crawfish season in mid-January…
King says consumers can expect to pay around six dollars a pound for boiled crawfish and $3.50 a pound for medium-sized live crawfish
And King says crawfish lovers will appreciate the quality of crawfish that’s available…
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