The USA Today Network reports Governor Edwards and CenturyLink have reached an agreement to keep CenturyLink’s corporate headquarters in Monroe through 2025. CenturyLink’s current deal that includes 26-million dollars in grant dollars from the state, is set to expire at the end of 2020. The company employs over two-thousand workers in Louisiana.

US Senator John Kennedy introduces legislation that would prohibit social media companies from collecting private data and grants users the property rights to all of the data they generate on the internet. Kennedy says people are growing increasingly distrustful of social media and other tech companies, due to how secretive they’ve been about their data collection efforts. The Senator says this would force the companies to note exactly what personal data is being sold, and to which companies.
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the legislation gives control and ownership back to the users.

LSU basketball is a three-seed in the East Regional and the Tigers will play Yale on Thursday in Jacksonville…
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The Republican Governor’s Association holds a fundraiser in New Orleans today for the two G-O-P candidates for governor, Ralph Abraham and Eddie Rispone. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says whoever makes the run-off against Governor Edwards will also get a boost when President Trump comes to Louisiana for a campaign rally…
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