Early voting begins Saturday at 8:30 AM for the December 8th election, which features the secretary of state’s runoff election involving Democrat Gwen-Collins Greenup, a Minister, and Republican Kyle Ardoin, the Interim Secretary. Early voting will continue, except on Sunday, through December 1st. pollster John Couvillon of JMC Analytics expects Ardoin to win the race easily…
The Secretary of State’s office says there are 134 candidate runoffs in 47 parishes.
Christmas tree farms are generally seeing a fair crop this year. And it is looking much better than the last couple of years. That’s according to Gray Anderson of Grant Farms in Grant, Louisiana, who says weather has had an effect on the crop in previous years.
Cut 3 (07) “…two years really hard”
Anderson says his farm sells between 2,500 and 3,000 trees each year.
Thousands of 2016 Louisiana flood victims continue to wait for President Donald Trump to sign a waiver so they can be eligible for disaster aid. Flooded homeowners who took out Small Business Administration disaster loans remain ineligible for grant dollars, because of the federal government’s duplication of benefits policy. Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves says he’s heard from the White House that this issue should be resolved shortly. He hopes so, because it’s incredibly frustrating…
Congress approved a law in October to allow Louisiana flood victims who got an S-B-A loan to also be eligible for federal grants through the Restore Louisiana program.
A convicted child rapist, and former Catholic Priest has died in prison while serving out his life sentence. Corrections says 82-year-old Robert Lester Melancon died of natural causes. Melancon was convicted in 1996 for raping an altar boy from 1985 to 1991 was the priest served in Terrebonne Parish.