Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announces he’s running for U-S Senate, giving Republican Incumbent Bill Cassidy a major challenger for the November 3rd election. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Statewide COVID hospitalizations are nearly triple what they were at our low point on June 13th. Matt Doyle reports healthcare providers are worried about hospital capacity again
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The National Hurricane Center is giving a tropical wave in the central Gulf of Mexico a high chance to develop into a tropical cyclone over the next two days. State Climatologist Barry Keim…
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But in the meantime, Keim says this disturbance will have a more immediate impact on the state.
Keim says if this system continues to develop, we could see some high winds and storm surge along the coastline.
There’s also Tropical Storm Gonzalo in the Atlantic, which is expected to reach the Caribbean on Saturday.
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Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins has announced he will run against Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in the November 3rd election. Perkins says he decided to run because America and Louisiana are at a crossroads
Perkins gives Cassidy a major challenger from the Democratic Party, but Cassidy holds a huge fundraising advantage.
Perkins says he’s tired of the political games in Washington D-C and he wants to help create a government that serves everyone…
Cassidy says he’s done a lot during his five years in the U-S Senate and plans to run on that record…
Perkins will officially qualify tomorrow. John Paul Bourgeois from Gretna was the first person to sign up to challenge Cassidy. Bourgeois is an epidemiologist and public health librarian. The Gretna resident says he’s running against Cassidy because he tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act…
Baton Rouge Democrat Antoine Pierce also signed up to run for US Senate on the first day of qualifying, Pierce says reducing poverty in Louisiana is his goal…
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Louisiana has added nearly 1,000 COVID hospitalizations since moving into Phase Two June 5th.
Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Alex Billioux says that’s concerning healthcare providers who are already dealing with an influx of patients who weren’t being treated during the stay at home order.
We now have 1581 COVID hospitalizations, nearly triple our low point of 542 June 13th.
In response, Governor Edwards issued a statewide mask mandate and closed bars last Monday. Billioux says they’re hoping to see results from that as early as next week.
Some have argued that the recent wave is exaggerated due to increased testing numbers, but Billioux we’re seeing a steady rise in hospitalizations, and the state now has an over ten percent positive rate for COVID tests.
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Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell files paperwork seeking a fourth term in the office representing northwest Louisiana.
Campbell is one of the state’s longest-serving elected officials, first elected to the State Senate in 1975. Campbell says he wants to continue his work serving the working people of the state.
Campbell has made several attempts to run for federal and statewide offices but has not been successful, his most recent effort a loss to now-Senator John Kennedy in 2016.
The Louisiana Political Hall of Famer says if given another term he will continue to fight for more rural broadband access and against predatory utility practices.
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