The Senate Agriculture Committee is considering legislation today that would strictly define what can and cannot be labeled as “milk”. This comes in response to the rising popularity of products like almond, coconut, and soy “milk”.
Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says the definition would be strict.
If approved the Department of Health would be tasked with enforcement.
The Advocate Newspaper has received the prestigious Pultizer Prize, for its coverage of Louisiana being one of only two states that allowed non-unanimous guilty verdicts. Advocate President Judi Terzotis says the newspaper had a team dedicated to covering the story for eight months and knew their reporting was making an impact when it landed the constitutional amendment in the hands of voters.
Cut 14 (10) “…communities deserve.”
It’s not a total loss, but the devastating fire that ripped through the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has many Francophile Louisianans in mourning today. Matt Doyle has the story.
A federal appeals court has agreed with the lower courts in the removal of a Confederate Monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse. The monument known as “Bloody Caddo” was erected in 1906 and the court has ruled it is on public property.
The 5th U.S. Courts of Appeals in New Orleans have rejected the claims from the United Daughters of Confederacy Shreveport’s Chapter that the monument is on private property. Caddo Parish Commissioners are now offering the Chapter an opportunity to move the monument to another location that is not in front of the current courthouse.