Louisiana is the second hungriest state in the nation. Michelle Southern reports…:
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This is Louisiana Craft Brewers Week, designated to commemorate beers brewed right here in the state, and the people who make it possible. Jeff Palermo reports…:
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A new report from the USDA finds there are over 41 million Americans, including 13 million children, who lived at risk of hunger in 2016. Bread for the World, a movement in the US to end hunger, broke the numbers down by state, and found that Louisiana is the second hungriest in the nation. President David Beckmann says this should be a wake-up call…:
Beckmann said the hunger problem in the state is concentrated among African Americans where about 1 out of 3 families may run out of food for the month.
Beckmann said there are several ways to reverse this trend such as maintaining funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and providing tax credits for low-income families:
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Good budget news for the state has been hard to find, but we finally found some. Governor John Bel Edwards says the state ended up with a 143-million dollar surplus for the fiscal year that ended June 30th. Edwards says it’s a sign Louisiana’s economy is improving….
The Edwards administration had to close two mid-year shortfalls last year, but a higher than anticipated increase in personal income and sales tax collections helped create the surplus. The governor says the state’s constitution limits how the surplus money can be used…
Because of limits on how the surplus money can be spent, it can not be used to help the state close an anticipated one-billion dollar budget gap next fiscal year. Edwards says he’s having positive meetings with legislators and business leaders over how the state can replace the loss of temporary taxes that expire in July….
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This is Louisiana Craft Brewers Week, designated to commemorate beers brewed right here in the state, and the people who make it possible. Cary Koch (COKE), Executive Director of the Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild, says when this designation was made by the State Legislature in 2013, there were just 7 breweries that took part, and three brewpubs…:
LACBW events include tap takeovers, samplings of cask ales, special beer releases, and opportunities to meet the brewers. Koch says this week is about giving back to Louisiana Craft Beer, and you can log on to la-beer.org to find a brewery near you…:
Koch says Louisiana has over 30 breweries and brew pubs — and establishments in every corner of the state are opening up their taps and shevles to carry these locally made beers. He says these brewers make it a priority to use as many Louisiana-made products as possible…:
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There is a tragic story out of Denham Springs. Police say a 5-year-old child was run over and killed in the street moments after leaving an ice cream truck. Amber Fairburn with Denham Springs PD says officers were dispatched Wednesday evening…:
No charges are filed in the incident. Fairburn says the child was pronounced dead at a local hospital. She says the driver of the vehicle indicated he did not see the little boy…:
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An off-duty Slidell Police Lieutenant was killed last night in a motorcycle accident on Brownswitch Road. Trooper Dustin Dwight says a 29-year-old Gina Marie Groglio of Pearl River was attempting to make a left hand turn into a private drive when she struck the motorcycle driven by 52-year-old Ray Dupuy
Dupuy served on the Slidell Police Department for over two decades. Impairment is not suspected to be a contributing factor in the crash, but Dwight says Groglio was cited for improper turning…