The National Hurricane Center says there is a medium chance for a tropical depression to form near Louisiana’s southeast coast later this week. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says a named storm forming is possible, but there’s a better chance for significant rainfall totals…
Cut 3 (09) “…south Louisiana.”
Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville is being renamed back to Camp Beauregard after Battle of New Orleans veteran Captain Jacques Toutant Beauregard. It was previously named after Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard until the name was changed in 2022. Lieutenant Colonel Noel Collins says the restoration honors Louisiana history.
After Shreveport Republican Senator Alan Seabaugh ripped Governor Landry on KEEL radio last week, the governor went on its morning show to give his response. Seabaugh especially had some choice words over Landry using his line-item veto power to scrap four of his projects. Landry says there simply wasn’t enough money for all the projects the legislature gave him.
Cut 4 (11) “…that was overdrawn.”
Landry, meanwhile, said yesterday that Office of Motor Vehicles Director Bryan Adams and his team have made upgrades to the OMV computer system to prevent the service disruptions that hampered the agency earlier this year.