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Voting by mail has been a very popular option so far in the early voting period of the 2020 presidential primary set for July 11th. JMC Analytics publisher John Couvillon says 44 percent of early voting has come by mail this year, and he forecasts 17 percent of all primary ballots will be mail-in by the time the primary ends. Extrapolating that for the general election…

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Another Louisiana staple announces a cancellation, The 2020 World Championship Gumbo Cookoff in New Iberia is the largest tourism event for the parish and Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce CEO Janet Faulk-Gonzales says the annual October event is a large undertaking and they waited as long as possible to make a decision about the event.

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Can you ask for a raise during the coronavirus pandemic?  And if so, how? Kevin Barnhart talks to an expert for the answers.

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The number of people hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 has surpassed one-thousand as the state health department reports another 61 hospitalized today because of the coronavirus. The number of total cases rose by 19-hundred and deaths increased by 23 to 3,211.