Louisiana’s FastStart workforce training program has been named the best in the nation by Business Facilities magazine for a record eight years in a row. LED Secretary Don Pierson…:
Cut 4 (07) “in Louisiana”
Pierson says per capita, Louisiana attracts more jobs and major projects than any other state.

It’s anyone’s race in the October 14th State Treasurer’s election, according to a new survey by JMC Analytics pollster John Counvillon. There are three well-funded Republicans going for the job; Angele Davis, Neil Riser and John Schroder. Couvillon says the biggest number from his poll is the undecided, which is at 60-percent…:
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There is a major Democrat in the race, New Orleans attorney Derrick Edwards who polled at 18-percent.

The Department of Children and Family Services launches a program aimed at improving the foster care system. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says it’s the new Quality Parenting Initiative that means foster parents do everything for a child that a birth parent would do…:
Cut 14 (12) “all the time”
Walters says this initiative is about allowing foster parents to act more as parents instead of temporary caregivers.

A professor at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health says it’s never a good idea to carry your cell phone to the bathroom. Dr. James Diaz says what gets spread to our phones can get on a lot of other things we touch…:
Cut 7 (10) “your hands”
He says a smart phone can contain more bacteria than the bathroom itself.