The organizers of the recall effort to oust New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell spoke for the first time yesterday since it was announced they ended up 18-thousand votes short of what they needed to trigger a recall election. Recall organizers Eileen Carter and Belden Batiste says the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters math doesn’t add up…..
cut 15 (08) “…..we got back up”
But the Registrar says many of the signatures they received were duplicates and one of the pages was filled with Disney character names.

Democrats have added a member in the Louisiana House as New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry, who was unaffiliated, is re-joining the Democratic Party. Landry says Blue Party members are gearing up for what they anticipate will be difficult session…
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According to the Crawfish App, crawfish prices have dropped another 25-cents per pound this week bringing the average retail boiled crawfish price to just under five-dollars a pound and live crawfish to $2.77 per pound. Crawfish App co-founder Laney King says we traditionally see prices fall as we get closer to Easter…
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The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources say they are making good progress in plugging orphaned wells with the 25-million dollars they received from the federal government. D-N-R spokesperson Patrick Courreges says crews have plugged more than 100 of them in north Louisiana. He says the wells are an environmental hazard…
cut 5 (11) …potential”
The state has more than 45-jundred orphaned well sites.