Louisiana reports a slight increase in the total number of COVID-19 hospitalizations today for the first time since April 13th, and 32 more Louisianans are also reported to have died from COVID-19.
So much more oil is being produced than consumed right now that producers are running out of places to store it, leading to a pricing quirk where future on a barrel of oil are in the never before seen negatives. Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Gifford Briggs says the energy industry is on the verge of collapse…
Ten years ago today the BP Oil Spill killed 11 rig workers and coated much of the state’s coastline in tar. The cleanup job was immense, but Congressman Garrett Graves, who was the head of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority at the time, remembers it was expedited by a one of its kind agreement cut with BP to get projects off the ground in record time…
A survey of Louisiana small businesses finds nearly 60-percent of them are at the risk of closing over the next five months…
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The US Supreme Court rules all felony trials must be decided by a unanimous jury verdict. In 2018, Louisiana passed a constitutional amendment ending its practice of allowing non-unanimous verdicts, but Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the amendment was not retroactive…