House Transportation advances a bill that will ban the use of touching your cell phone while driving. Chris Alexander with Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group spoke against the bill saying in testimony from previous legislative attempts the bill’s author has said the ultimate goal is to get rid of phones in vehicles altogether.
The bill now goes to the House floor. It has already received Senate approval.
The U-S House has sent to the Senate a 95-billion dollar foreign aid package that includes aid for Ukraine. Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene leads a group of hard-right Republicans who believe Speaker Mike Johnson of Benton should be fired as Speaker because the House approved billions in foreign aid over new border security and immigration policies. Johnson believes the House did the right thing…
The Public Service Commission has approved Entergy’s 5-year grid resilience plan that including 2100 projects to fortify structures that will help avoid storm-related power outages or shorten their duration. The project is expected to cost 1.2 billion dollars but Entergy President and CEO Phillip May says benefits far outweigh the cost.
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The LSU gymnastics team won its first championship in dramatic fashion Saturday rallying from behind to win during the final rotation. Before retiring in 2020, former head coach DD Breaux led the Tigers to 31 top-ten finishes in 43 seasons. The Donaldsonville native is so happy to see the program grow under head coach Jay Clark…