Governor Edwards backs an effort by a New Orleans Senator to raise the minimum wage to ten dollars and hour by summer of 2021. It’s an increase from his previous support for legislation that would only raise the minimum to nine dollars an hour. Edwards says Louisiana cannot continue to keep falling behind.
Edwards made raising the minimum wage a pillar of his 2015 election, and 2019 reelection efforts.
LSU Ag Center researchers are warning farmers that stink bug numbers will be high this year because of a series of mild winters. LSU Entomologist Doctor Sebe Brown says it takes temperatures below 20-degrees to kill off the redbanded stink bug which is from South America
Legislation has been filed for the upcoming session that would ban transgender girls from playing on organized female sports teams. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says there are cases where transgender girls are outperforming biological females…
cut 14 (08) “…against that”
Louisiana Trans Advocates President Dylan Waguespack says women’s equality organizations have signed an open letter denouncing the legislation.
53-year-old Phillip Dewoody of Opelousas was arrested in connection with the disappearance and discovery of the body of a missing deaf and mute woman from Ville Platte. Search teams found the body of Joyce Thomas along I-49 between Sunset and Opelousas. State Police Trooper Thomas Gossen says he is unsure of a previous connection between the victim and the suspect, adding the woman had been reported missing on February 26th.