The latest US Senate race campaign finance totals show Republican challenger Bill Cassidy with one million dollars more in cash on hand than Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu. However, Landrieu raised two-hundred thousand dollars more than Cassidy in the third quarter. Political analyst Clancy Dubos expects Landrieu to spend more of her campaign funds than her main GOP challenger

cut 8 (07) “for the runoff”

Cassidy has four-point-four million on hand, while Landrieu has three-point-four million.

According to the latest economic projection numbers for Louisiana by Loren Scott & Jim Richardson, The Bayou State is projected to surpass 2 million overall jobs by 2015. Dr. Scott says there has been this incredible industrial expansion and it’s due in part to the huge drop in the price of natural gas…

cut 14 (11) “really picked up”

He says areas north of I-10 will see growth but not nearly what the southern region will.

Residents in Ouachita Parish continue to clean up damage after an EF-2 tornado ripped through Monroe and West Monroe Monday. Ouachita Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Neil Brown says, as of now, he can’t set a monetary figure to the amount of damage the tornado has caused, but is is significant…

cut 5 (12) “lot of damage”

He says preliminary damage assessment teams will be coming to the area in the next few days.

Will we pay more for chocolate because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa? A local chocolate maker doesn’t think so. Michael Nelson with Elmer Candy Corporation in Ponchatoula says chocolate is trading above what he would consider a fundamental level in terms of supply and demand, but he says that’s as much the Ebola scare as it is speculative traders in the market…

cut 11 (10) “financial speculators”

Nelson says you should know there is no way to contract Ebola from chocolate.