House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is discouraging his fellow Republicans from supporting an effort spearheaded by Shreveport Republican Alan Seabaugh to revoke the Governor’s coronavirus pandemic state of emergency.  Schexnayder says the petition fixes nothing.
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Schexnayder adds the move could trigger overrides for ongoing executive orders tied to previous natural disasters and be a hurdle for the governor’s authority to tackle future events.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring three tropical waves….
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That’s State Climatologist Barry Keim who says one of the tropical disturbances is in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and another one is north of Cuba. But the National Hurricane Center gives both systems a low chance of developing into a depression.

Governor John Bel Edwards says he’s using his lunchtime today, through Wednesday for prayer and fasting. Edwards says he got the idea for three days of fasting and prayer during a conference call with faith leaders…
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Edwards is encouraging Louisiana residents to also fast and pray.

A 24 million dollar state program designed to provide rental assistance to low-income individuals has been temporarily suspended. The program had funding to help 10,000 families, but 40,000 applications were received. Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Director Cashauna Hill says the mass interest in the rental assistance program is evidence of a budding crisis that is set to get much worse in the near future.
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