Louisiana reports its first death from a rare disease believed to be caused by COVID-19 in children and young adults. Governor Edwards says the state has reported 13 cases…
Cut 7 (08) “…discharged.”
Edwards says multisystem inflammatory syndrome can occur up to four weeks after a young person gets COVID-19 and it causes some body parts to become inflamed.

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has joined forces with the Helis Foundation to provide emergency relief grants to humanities organizations with awards ranging from three-thousand to 20-thousand dollars. L-E-H executive director Miranda Restovic says the grants are for operational expenses…
cut 12 (08) “…utilities”
For more information visit l-e-h-dot-org and the deadline is June 30th.

The full House is set to discuss this morning a proposal that would take 200-million in federal CARES dollars to set up a small business grant program. The 200-million would come from 811-million dollars that the federal government designated for local governments. NFIB Director Dawn Starns likes the proposal…
cut 16 (09) “….possible”
But Governor Edwards says the feds could allocate additional funds dedicated to businesses in the future, but may not offer any more for local governments, so….
cut 15 (05) “…do that’
The measure has already passed the Senate and is awaiting action in the House this morning.