LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine spoke to the House Education Committee yesterday and says a plan is in place that would see high school football starting on time. While originally forecasting that football could only happen in Phase Three, Bonine says the season could move forward in Phase Two.
Bonine says he has consulted with other states who are already playing football to form the standards.
A CDC moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent took effect Friday and lasts until the end of the year. To gain protection under the moratorium a tenant must sign a declaration attesting that removal from their home would put them at great risk of contracting coronavirus. Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center spokesperson Maxwell Ciardullo says you can get the form, useable statewide, at ready.nola.gov…
Just over one in five Louisiana households still need to fill out their census forms. Assistant regional census manager Marilyn Stephens says census workers are knocking on doors to in an effort to have the census count wrapped up by the end of the month deadline.
Cut 9 (11) “…19% of households.”
If a community is 5% undercounted, it could result in a loss of $15 million over the next decade.
When it comes to Laura evacuees the state still doesn’t have an exact number of people from Louisiana who fled to Texas and are being sheltered by the State of Texas, but Governor Edwards did say the number is likely in the thousands and mostly in Houston or Beaumont. He says they’re being moved…
Just under 12,000 Laura refugees are being sheltered by Louisiana.