A Tulane study conducted in Texas shows minorities face longer wait times, and more questions when attempting to make an appointment with a primary care doctor. Matt Doyle has more.
A third person is arrested in connection to the investigation of former Livingston Parish Sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife Cynthia, a former school teacher. The couple is accused of child rape, producing child porn, feeding desserts laced in bodily fluids to school children, and sexual abuse of an animal. 41-year-old Melanie Curtin of Denham Springs was apprehended Saturday in New Orleans as she was returning from a cruise on charges of video voyeurism and first degree rape. Curtin is a former employee of the Livingston Sheriff’s Office.
New Orleans-based Urban South Brewery is opening its first satellite location. Louisiana’s second-largest craft beer brewery is opening a taproom that will also serve as a research and development facility in Houston. Houston location taproom manager Marin Slanina says they plan on bringing over some of the New Orleans brews like the Holy Roller IPA and putting a Texas twist on them.
Cut 8 (09) “…New Orleans location.”
The grand opening is February 29th.
Assignments for two key House committees are in and Democrats have increased their representation relative to the last term thanks to the bipartisan coalition that elected Speaker Clay Schexnayder. The coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats now narrowly controls Ways and Means and Appropriations, and political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says that could stymie conservative priorities, causing inter-GOP friction…