A lawsuit filed this week by West Monroe Representative Marcus Hunter seeks to extend the early voting period for the December 6th runoff because of the two days lost this time due to the Thanksgiving Holidays. Hunter says he hopes a judge will add those two extra days back…

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But Secretary of State Tom Schedler says this is not the first time that polls have been closed during the early voting period when state offices are closed…

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Hunter says this election, with the US-Senate race at the top of the ballot, is too important to shorten the amount of time someone is given the opportunity to vote.

Former Governor Edwin Edwards took several shots at his 6th Congressional District opponent in a debate where Garret Graves did not show up. While Graves was head of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Edwards says Graves’ father was awarded $130 million dollars in state contracts and he bought coastal restoration office space then made his brother-in-law the leasing agent…

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Edwards also accuses Graves of playing dirty politics.

As the rate of diabetes continues to rise, new numbers show the disease costs Louisiana five-billion dollars a year. The study was conducted by LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the facility’s executive director, Dr. William Cefalu, says the cost of pre- and undiagnosed diabetes grew as much as 82-percent since 2007…

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Nationally, the cost of diabetes has grown to $322 billion per year.