High school football appears good to go for a scheduled start date of October 8th after testimony from LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonnie yesterday in a House committee. Bonine says he has consulted with other states who are already playing football to form the standards. From that, stadiums will operate at half-capacity for spectators.
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A Trump Administration ruling through the CDC to prevent evictions for non-payment of rent took effect yesterday. The ruling does not absolve renters of paying their rent, it just pushes the due date back to January. Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center spokesperson Maxwell Ciardullo warns this sets the stage for mass evictions to start 2021…
So far in New Orleans alone since the moratorium ended June 15th there have been 730 eviction filings.
Governor Edwards announces Louisiana has received a SNAP waiver allowing benefits to be used to purchase hot or prepared food for the month of September, but adds you can’t use these benefits at restaurants.
That’s a big help for the people of southwest Louisiana seeing as just about every customer in Calcasieu, Beauregard, and Cameron is still without power, and about a quarter to half of customers in Winn, Natchitoches, Rapides, Allen, Jeff Davis, Vernon, and Sabine lack power.
Just over one in five Louisiana households still need to fill out their census forms. Assistant regional census manager Marilyn Stephens says when census takers show up at your door, they will have an official photo ID and be practicing virus spread mitigation efforts.