Baton Rouge Democratic Senator Cleo Fields says he will run for Congress in the newly configured sixth district. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Fields previously represented Louisiana in Congress when he served two terms in the mid-1990s and ended up losing that seat because of redistricting…
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Garret Graves currently represents Louisiana’s sixth district and the white Republican says he plans to run for Congress again.

New data released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Louisiana added 33-hundred non-farm jobs from November to December. Louisiana Workforce Commission Chief Economist Emily DiPalma says the number of non-farm jobs was just under two-million….
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Dipalma says the state’s unemployment rate for December was 3.7 percent, the second lowest rate in series history for the month of December.

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is expanding into Central and North Louisiana in a partnership with MD Clinics. Colleen Crain has more…
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