The meeting lasted more than nine hours; but at 4:30 this morning, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee passed a new congressional map that has one majority Democratic district and five majority Republican districts. Prior to the final vote, members called out committee members for already having their minds made up.
The meeting took all night, because numerous people went before the committee to express their support for a Congressional map with two majority minority districts. West Monroe Senator Jay Morris is the author of the map with one majority Black district and was asked how he felt that dozens of people came to the capitol to oppose his bill….
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The full Senate is expected to debate Morris’ bill tomorrow.
If you’re planning on going to Paris to watch the Saints play this year, you can now start making your plans…
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State Police has agreed to pay the family of Ronald Greene 4.8-million dollars nearly seven years to the day after a group of white troopers fatally beat Greene, who was Black, during a traffic stop in Union Parish. As for whether this settlement will serve as a deterrent from something like this from happening again, legal analyst Franz Borghardt says you didn’t need the settlement for that.