Qualifying for the November ballot begins at 8 AM tomorrow morning and as of now no Democrats with statewide name recognition have stepped up to challenge Republican Senator Bill Cassidy. Outgoing State Democratic Party Director Stephen Handwerk says we may see a last-second addition of a prominent Democrat if they feel those announced couldn’t run a competitive race.
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Antoine Pierce, A Baton Rouge progressive activist, and Peter Wenstrup, a New Orleans teacher, are the only announced Democrats in the race so far.
The Southwestern Athletic Conference has made the decision to move its fall sports, including football, to the spring. The SWAC is planning to have a seven-game football schedule but Grambling President Rick Gallot says the virus will dictate if football can be played
More than a third of Louisiana residents lack access to an adequate food source because of the pandemic unemployment rates. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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185,000 Louisiana workers applied for the 250 dollar front line worker rebate in the first five days of the program, which was designed to send aid to about 200,000 total workers who were employed in healthcare, first response, and grocery stores during the early days of the pandemic.