Governor John Bel Edwards is asking college students to do their part in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Edwards says that means wearing masks, maintaining social distancing and avoid gatherings with people who are not following this guidance…
Cut 5 (07) “…to be safe.”
The state reported 779 new cases today and 37 deaths.
Total jobs lost in the first half of this year are nearly double the number the state saw after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. That’s according to U-L Lafayette Economist Gary Wagner, who says the total number of jobs has dropped by more than 10-percent in 2020.
Cut 13 (11) “…significant number”
Wagner says he expects to see job growth in the second half of 2020, but not enough to offset the job losses for the first half of the year.
The Legislature is considering Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s election plan for the fall elections that Governor Edwards calls woefully inadequate. The proposal scales back the vote by mail options compared to what the state had for the summer elections. Ardoin says he’s been pressured by both sides to change the plan implemented in the summer, and he feels this is a compromise.
The only COVID-related reason for requesting an absentee ballot is testing positive for the virus during early voting or before Election Day.
Two former LSU students told USA Today that former Tigers running back Derrius Guice raped them in 2016 when the Baton Rouge native was a freshman. LSU beat reporter Glen Guilbeau for the USA Today Network says the investigative story found that the women reported the allegations to multiple people at LSU, but…