A Louisiana man is fighting to receive survivor benefits after his husband died. Marjorie Esman with the ACLU of Louisiana says William Conley passed away in February of 2015, and his husband Gerald Beem has been trying to get social security benefits ever since….:
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The ACLU is taking legal action, but the Louisiana Family Forum doesn’t seem them winning this case because gay marriages were not recognized in Louisiana at the time of Beem’s death.

Today Governor John Bel Edwards and Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson will hold a news conference to highlight a major transportation project set to begin between the I-10/I-49 interchange and the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Last month the US Department of Transportation awarded a $60 million dollar grant to Louisiana to partially fund the project.

Eyebrow threaders in Louisiana are raising more than their eyebrows over a 2010 law requiring them to have an esthetician’s license. The Institute for Justice has filed a lawsuit to get the law tossed out. Attorney Meagan Forbes says this law forces threaders to spend as much as $13-thousand completing 750 hours of cosmetology training and taking licensing exams. But Forbes says cosmetology schools don’t teach anything about threading:
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But others say threading falls under the cosmetology law and this is only fair and about the public’s safety. A similar licensing law was overturned in Texas last year.