A House committee shoots down a proposal allowing all registered voters in Louisiana to vote by mail. Recent LSU grad Catherine McKinney and supporter of the legislation says vote by mail is already an option for Louisiana college students…
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The legislation would have allowed voters to request the Secretary of State’s office mail them a ballot. The proposal ran into opposition from Republicans like Denham Springs Representative Valarie Hodges who says vote by mail is more prone to fraud than showing up at a booth.
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The vote was nine to five against and the proposal is dead for the session.

Some technicians are back at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans continuing their work on a rocket for a spaceship that will take the first woman to the moon by 2024. Michoud Director Robert Champion says many engineers continue to work from home…
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The decision to return technicians to the facility was made after NASA officials observed a decrease in COVID numbers across the New Orleans region over a 14-day period.

Cal-Maine Foods in St. Helena Parish donates nearly 600,000 eggs to food banks in Louisiana. Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says Cal-Maine had an excess and wanted to donate it, so they filled two tractor-trailer trucks with 1,560 cases of eggs each and they are on their way to food banks…
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Strain says that’s 23,400 dozen cartons of eggs.