Are you ready for the winter weather this weekend? State Climatologist Jay Grymes says confidence is high for an impactful and dangerous winter weather event, beginning as early as Friday for the northwestern parishes and continuing next week with bitterly-cold Arctic air…
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Grymes says freezing rain and subsequent icing could result in surface accumulation of a half an inch of ice to an inch of ice for a large portion of the northern half of the state.
Department of Transportation spokesperson Rodney Mallett says DOTD crews can apply a chemical call Pavix to help break up the ice once it forms and they have ten million pounds of salt that can be spread on the roads before the icing event…
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Congresswoman Julia Letlow’s announcement that she will run for U-S Senate, opens up one of the six Congressional seats. Greg Hilburn, a Louisiana politics reporter for the USA Today Network, says with qualifying less than three weeks away, candidates will have to resort to creative ways to raise money.
Baton Rouge Senator Rick Edmonds says he plans to run for the 5th district Congressional seat. Several other state lawmakers say they are also looking at running.
New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter is among the sponsors of a bipartisan bill that would require all middle school and high school student IDs and websites to include mental health and suicide prevention information. Carter says this will encourage kids contemplating suicide to call the 988 suicide prevention hotline rather than people they know.