Democratic Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins will challenge Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in the November 3rd election. Before he got into politics, Perkins served in the Army and is a former student body president at West Point and Harvard. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Cassidy can not underestimate Perkins.
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Perkins will file his official paperwork at the Secretary of State’s Office at 11 AM.

Tropical Depression eight has formed in the central Gulf and it could dump rain on south Louisiana on its way to Texas. National Weather Service forecaster Donald Williams…
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The National Hurricane Center’s forecast says the depression will develop into a Tropical Storm tomorrow.

In a statewide poll commissioned by House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, 76-percent of the state’s residents support the governor’s mask mandate and 61-percent say the public health emergency in Louisiana should not be canceled. U-L Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says the Remington Research Group surveyed 36-hundred Louisiana residents…
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Schexnayder opposes an effort by a group of Republican lawmakers to revoke the governor’s coronavirus emergency order.

Governor John Bel Edwards will hold another COVID-19 briefing today at 2:30. The state reproted an addition 60 deaths yesterday. The highest one day total since May 1st.