Council for a Better Louisiana releases their candidate surveys, offering interested voters a more in-depth, detail-oriented look at the major candidates for Governor. CABL President Barry Erwin says the survey offers voters a glimpse into how the candidates view themselves, and what they find most important.
Republican Eddie Rispone is the only major candidate of the three to not submit the survey. You can read the survey PDFs on CABL’s website.
A cold front is moving into the state today and by tomorrow should make its way to the coast. While Friday will be the most comfortable, State Climatologist Barry Keim says there will be lingering effects to last through LSU’s season opener on Saturday.
Cut 8 (11) “…your umbrellas handy”
The U-S teen birth rate has declined to its lowest level in recorded history. As of 2018, there were about 17 babies born per one-thousand girls aged 15 to 19 in the United States. Tulane Sociology professor Michele Adams says it is not that teens are having less sex, its that more are practicing safer sex
Cut 12 (12) “…consequences of sex”
Pew research says the teen birth rate has been cut in half since 2008.
State and local officials are putting plans into action to try to keep Fibrebond from leaving Minden for east Texas. The company threatened to leave due to the poor condition of bridges in north Louisiana that forced them to take a 247-mile detour to ship products west. Minden Mayor Terry Gardner says they’ve pitched the new route and are holding a meeting this Friday with state officials to try to secure the money needed to repair or replace a series of bridges that would open a second route.