A House committee approves a resolution that would suspend the Governor’s COVID public health emergency order for 30 days after the current special session ends. Much of the discussion at the committee centered on the damage done to businesses by the ongoing orders. Sulphur Representative Les Farnum says the restrictions exacerbated Laura’s economic hit…
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The Senate Education Committee approves legislation that would require the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to have four state legislators serve on the executive board of the LHSAA. Monroe Senator Stewart Cathey says this will help keep lawmakers more informed on issues involving high school sports
The measure heads to the Senate floor for more consideration.
Don’t let the fall weather fool you. Hurricane season is not over in Louisiana. While many of the state’s October landfalls have happened ealier in the month, Hurricane Juan made landfall on October 29, 1985, looped around, and made a second landfall on October 31. State climatologist Barry Keim says it may not have been the most powerful hurricane, but its stationary nature pummeled south Louisiana.
Weather pros are keeping an eye on an area of disturbance over the west-central Caribbean. The national hurricane center is giving the area a 40% chance of formation into a tropical depression within the next 48 hours.