Governor Jeff Landry named former state lawmaker and Terrebonne Parish President Gordon Dove as the Chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Landry says Dove took the job because he wants to restructure the CPRA …
Cut 7 (07) “…protect our coast.”
Landry also named petroleum engineer Ben Bienvenu as the Commissioner of Conservation.

Three weeks into his position as Secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, retired Caddo Parish Juvenile Judge David Matlock recognizes changes need to be made to better assist children and families. The previous administration struggled with a lack of caseworkers and overwhelming child welfare caseloads.
Cut 9 (12) “…talk to them.”
Matlock says he wants to know what can be done for them to return to DCFS or take suggestions on what can be done to help caseworkers going forward.

College students will have to wait longer before finding out how much financial aid they’ll receive. Changes were made to this year’s FAFSA application and then more changes were needed to fix how it calculates federal student aid. The delay might not be easy for students, but Ebony Holmes with the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance says there’s a plus side…
cut 5 (10) “…in funding”

Michael Graham Junior has passed away. He served 14 years on Louisiana’s death row for murdering a Union Parish couple in 1986, but DNA evidence eventually cleared him and he was released from Angola in 2000. Director of Death Penalty Action, Abe Bonowitz, says Graham’s story is an example of a miscarriage of justice…
cut 12 (08) “..it through”
Bonowitz says the Graham family has established a Go Fund Me page in his memory.