A host of Louisiana’s most powerful politicians and lobbyists are in DC this week for this year’s Washington Mardi Gras. Matt Doyle has more.
A Shreveport woman who is accused of failing to send her two children to school for almost two years has plead guilty to improper supervision. 35 year old Fathimah Slack, admitted she failed to send her children, ages 13 & 14, to school for the entire 2017-18 school year as well as the current school year until November. She’s been sentenced to 30 days behind bars.
Until the conclusion of the NFC Championship, many throughout Louisiana had plans of watching the Black and Gold this Sunday compete in the Big Game. However, some sports bars and restaurants are going to make sure those plans stay intact. In Lafayette, Fast Eddie, host of the Big Morning Show on Big 102.1 says his station has taken over Smitty’s Wings on Congress Street to watch the encounter between the Saints and the Colts from 2010. Eddie says they are going to treat it like it’s a live game.
Cut 12 (09) “…a lot of people.”
Fast Eddie says the party will feature a referee piñata and “pin the tail on Roger Goodell.”
In North Louisiana, people will be backing the Rams as former West Monroe football standout Andrew Whitworth is competing in the big game. Senator Mike Walsworth says he’s known Whitworth a very long time, and the general vibe of his old stomping grounds is that community is rooting for him this weekend.
Cut 14 (11) “…probably winding down.”