If you were forced to pay more because you used your debit card, you will soon have recourse. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Bill Cassidy and other Republican Senators will meet with President Trump in what political observers say could be a very tense meeting. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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Secretary of State Nancy Landry says her office received fewer questions about the new closed party primaries during early voting for Saturday’s U.S. Senate runoffs. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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St. Landry Parish is in a race against time to save homes from floodwaters. Parish President Jesse Bellard (BELL-ard) says some homes are already flooded, and floodwaters have entered the yards of other homes and are threatening to enter those homes as well.
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Bellard says the only way to drain water in St Landry Parish is to release it further south to the Virgin Canal.
Bellard says flooding of this magnitude is completely unprecedented for St. Landry Parish.
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Did it just cost you more to pay with your debit card? If so, starting August 1st, you can fight back. That’s the day when Beth Mizell’s Senate Bill 254 goes into effect, prohibiting businesses from adding surcharges to debit card transactions. The Franklinton Senator said more and more retailers were adding the surcharge, which is actually against federal law.
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Mizell says gas stations are some of the biggest perpetrators of this.
Mizell says businesses which are considering flouting the new state law by offering discounts to customers who pay with cash shouldn’t even think about trying it, because it won’t work.
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Consumers who are hit with a debit card surcharge can call a hotline, and those businesses have 30 days to remedy the situation. Those which don’t would then face fines of 500 dollars for each violation.
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Republican Senators and President Trump will meet behind closed doors today to discuss the Iran peace deal and the SAVE America Act. The election security bill would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The Presidents wants Congress to approve this legislation, but Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says the votes are not there in the Senate.
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Cassidy says he’s also very interested to hear what President Trump has to say about Iran. Louisiana’s outgoing U.S. Senator has criticized the peace deal, calling it a foreign policy blunder.
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On Tuesday, Cassidy was one of four GOP Senators to vote for a war powers resolution that calls on the Trump administration to withdraw U.S. troops from the war in Iran. The vote passed on a 50-to-48 vote.
Cassidy says he supported Trump’s initial war objectives to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, but those objectives were not met.
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Early voting for Saturday’s U.S. Senate primary runoffs closed over the weekend. Secretary of State Nancy Landry says despite lower turnouts for early voting in this election, voters seemed more comfortable with the new closed party primary system.
Every parish in the state will vote in the U.S. Senate primaries. Forty parishes will also have local propositions on the ballot, and ten will vote in local elections. Landry says your ballot will look different based on where you are and what party you are registered with.
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The closed primary law was approved by the legislature in 2024 and went into effect this year. Registered Republicans will receive a ballot to vote in the Republican primary, and registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary. Landry says no party voters choose which primary to vote in, but you can’t change your selection if you voted in May.
No party voters who did not select a ballot in May can choose which primary they would like to vote in. Selecting a ballot does not mean you are registering as a member of that party.
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Construction officially began in New Orleans on the Raising Cane’s 9th Ward Stadium at LCMC Health Field. The stadium will feature a turf field, 37-hundred seats, a press box, scoreboard, locker rooms and concessions. Stacy Martin, the secretary for the board of Ninth Ward Stadium Incorporated, says it will serve as the home field for George Washington Carver High School.
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Construction is scheduled to be completed before the 2027 football season. Martin says the groundbreaking also marked the beginning of a brick fundraising campaign.
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One-thousand bricks are available in phase one of the campaign, and they’ll cost 150 dollars each.
Martin says fundraising will continue beyond the stadium project in hopes of one day expanding the facility with an adjacent track and field complex.