LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine tells the House Education Committee what to expect for the upcoming high school football season. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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A new federal eviction moratorium takes effect today and lasts until 2021. Matt Doyle has the story.
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LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine spoke to the House Education Committee this morning 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. From that, stadiums will operate at half-capacity for spectators.
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Bonine says 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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A CDC moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent takes effect today and lasts until the end of the year.
Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center spokesperson Maxwell Ciardullo says the CDC is exercising powers granted to it during a public health emergency.
So far in New Orleans alone since the moratorium ended June 15th there have been 730 eviction filings.
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. Ciardullo says you can get the form, useable statewide, at ready.nola.gov…
New Orleans City judges ruled Thursday morning that the city will be suspending all eviction hearings, but reports are legal challenges in other parts of the country against the ruling are underway.
The ruling does not absolve renters of paying their rent, it just pushes the due date back to January. Ciardullo says this sets the stage for mass evictions to start 2021…
Renters must make less than six figures to qualify for the protections.
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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.
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If a community is 5% undercounted, it could result in a loss of $15 million over the next decade.
Stephens says the when census takers show up at your door, they will have an official photo ID and be practicing virus spread mitigation efforts.
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Stephens says if no one answers the door, a census taker will leave documentation of their visit.
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Stephens adds that if someone responds to the census, online or by phone, within two days of receiving the notice of visit card, the census taker will not come back.
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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.
Edwards says this is a big help for those who’ve been displaced due to Hurricane Laura, and the 11,679 people being sheltered by the state, primarily in 37 New Orleans hotels.
Edwards says you can’t use these benefits at restaurants.
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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 he did say the number is likely in the thousands and mostly in Houston or Beaumont. He says they’re being moved…
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