A House committee advances a resolution by the House Speaker that would suspend all COVID public health orders by the Governor for 30 days after the special session ends. Matt Doyle has the story…
The state reports just over 600 new COVID-19 cases today, with 8 new fatalities. Total hospitalizations… 534, down by 19… Ventilator usage also sees a decrease to 75, down by 4.
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 Juan is the latest into a season that a hurricane has made landfall in Louisiana, meaning no storm has made a Louisiana landfall in the last month of hurricane season.
The records date back to 1851.
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 during the summer when the LHSAA was trying to figure out how to play high school football during a pandemic, his phone was blowing up about the possibility that the season would be canceled…