Stormy weather is impacting the Monroe area this morning as another cold front sweeps through the state today. State Climatologist Barry Keim says once the cold front moves through, temperatures will drop….
cut 9 (07) “….across northern parishes”
Temperatures are already in the mid 30s in northwest Louisiana.

An organization is gearing up to push for hemp legalization in Louisiana after the 2018 Farm Bill allowes states to regulate it. Louisiana Industrial Hemp Alliance Representative Arthur Walker says it’s a lucrative cash crop and is found in a range of products.
Cut 4 (11) “…can do.”
The big sticking point for some state legislators is that hemp contains THC, the same chemical found in marijuana that’s responsible for getting a user high. But supporters of hemp production say there’s not enough THC in hemp to distort the mind.

The LHSAA Convention gets underway in Baton Rouge today and there will be a discussion to allow private schools to have their own championship sites in football, basketball, baseball and softball. LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine believes this is a bad idea, especially when it could mean that a football championship game would not be played in the Superdome…
cut 11 (11) “…argument wise”
But Teurlings Catholic Principal Mike Boyer says student-athletes are not motivated by the venue, they’re motivated by the title…
cut 12 (07) “…might be”
Boyer says he wants separate championship venues because the current format creates attendance issues, bad start times for title games and financially schools are not seeing the same type of revenue for playing in a title game than they did in the past.