Through a partnership with Apple, Louisiana will distribute more than 25-thousand Mac and iPad devices to eleven organizations to make digital opportunities more accessible for residents. Governor Landry says those receiving the devices include rural health facilities like the West Ascension Parish Hospital and the Savoy (suh-VOY) Medical Center in Evangeline Parish.
LDWF says in this first-ever recreational alligator hunting season, more than 36-hundred hunters harvested more than 18-hundred alligators. This year, LDWF offered as many as ten-thousand tags; and Franklin Senator Robert Allain, who wrote the bill to allow the recreational hunting of alligators, says he feels that’s an appropriate number.
Cut 10 (08) “…becomes more popular.”
Bill Cassidy was hamstrung in his re-election bid when Louisiana went to closed primaries for U.S. Senate races. Now, he wants to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. He has sponsored a bill that would require states to conduct open primaries for federal offices. Cassidy says it allows more people to have a say as to who represents them in Washington.
Cut 7 (10) “…who represents you.”
According to a statewide civic and economic development organization, Louisiana’s job growth for the third quarter was the second highest in the nation. Leaders for a Better Louisiana CEO Adam Knapp says Louisiana employers added 36-thousand jobs over the year ending in September, as the state reached 2.02 million non-farm jobs.