The LHSAA appears to have a plan in place to restart the high school football season October 8th. Executive director Eddie Bonine says they’ve consulted with other states who already began play and will limit attendance to 50 percent of capacity, and in the event that enough players are told to quarantine or isolate to the point where they do not have an adequate roster to compete, the inability to play a game will not be counted against them as a forfeit.
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Yesterday a CDC moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent took effect. 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…
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…
Edwards also announced SNAP restrictions on the purchase of hot and prepared food from grocery stores have been lifted. SNAP recipients still can’t use their benefits at restaurants, but they can use it to buy an expanded list of items at a grocery.
The death toll for Hurricane Laura rises to 23 as another two people die from heat-related illnesses and another fatality is reported from a work-related incident where a man was struck on the head by a falling tree limb.