Election day is tomorrow and voters in the newly drawn Sixth Congressional District will be electing a new member to the U-S House of Representatives. Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields is considered the front-runner to represent the new majority-minority district. Fields says if elected, he’ll push to increase the minimum wage…

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Fields previously served in Congress in the 1990s. Political newcomer Quentin Anderson of Baton Rouge is also running to represent the sixth district. Anderson echos Fields’ call for a higher minimum wage…

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Two other Democrats are also running, Wilken Jones Junior and Peter Williams. They are political unknowns.  The lone Republican in the race is former state senator Elbert Guillory, who is hoping to force a runoff against one of Democratic candidates.

The Saints have fired head coach Dennis Allen. New Orleans lost its seventh straight yesterday, 23 to 22 to the lowly Carolina Panthers. Host of the Locked on Saints Podcast Ross Jackson says a move had to be made after losing to one of the worst teams in the NFL…

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Allen ends his tenure with the Saints with a record of 18-25 in two and a half seasons, missing the playoffs in 2022 and 2023.

Tropical Depression 18 has formed south of Jamica and it’s expected to develop into a hurricane as it moves northwest towards the Gulf of Mexico. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says the National Hurricane Center’s official forecast has the storm approaching the Louisiana coast by the end of the week….

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Too early to say what kind of impact Louisiana will see.