Target and Walmart workers will see more money in their paycheck. Walmart says Associates in Louisiana will receive 13.7 million dollars in bonuses today, while Target says they are raising its minimum hourly wage to 12-dollars this spring and 15-dollars by the end of 2020. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says With higher wages, higher prices for customers at these stores may not be far behind. Rosa says it’s good to have growth, but it needs to be controlled…
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Baton Rouge Representative Pat Smith wants to send convicted criminals home if they have kids to take care of. It’s part of a proposed bill that would give judges more flexibility on deciding how to punish parents who have committed non-violent crimes.
A pro-life movie that highlights the journey of Metairie native and current LSU law student David Scotton meeting his birth parents for the first time will premiere online tonight. Scotton, says “I Lived on Parker Avenue” tells the story of his adoptive parents and his journey to find his birth mom in Indiana and her choice of choosing adoption over abortion…
The film has been presented at a film festival in Los Angeles and has been nominated for an award for Best Documentary-Short Category. Scotton says the way the story is presented is the reason behind it’s success…
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The film will premiere on Scotton’s website at i-lived-on-parker-ave-dot-com tonight starting at 7pm and will also be available order on DVD.
The Bonnet Carre Spillway is being opened as we speak for just the twelfth time ever as the Mississippi River swells. Eight of the 320 pods that are controlled by timber locks. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Michael Clancy says .The water will be released into Lake Ponchatrain, which has traditionally worried ecologists. Clancy says the Corps has a plan in place to make sure the damage is contained.