The coaching staff shakeup is underway at LSU as Bo Pelini is out as the Tigers defensive coordinator. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Big economic development news as Amazon plans on building a 100 million dollar fulfillment center in Carencro next year. Matt Doyle has the story.
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After a historically bad season for the LSU defense, Bo Pelini is out as defensive coordinator. The school announced last night that Pelini and LSU mutually parted ways with two years left on his contract, which puts his buyout at five-point-two million dollars. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says a change had to be made
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LSU says Pelini has accepted a one-time payment, but an exact amount was not given. The school has said previously the pandemic has cost the athletic department 80-million dollars. So Higgins says financial resources might be tight as Coach Ed Orgeron looks for a new defensive coordinator
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The 53-year-old Pelini was LSU’s defensive coordinator when the Tigers won the National title in 2007. But Higgins says there was skepticism when Pelini returned…
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When COVID vaccines are more widely available to the public you might wonder who’s paying for them, especially after the pandemic has hurt so many financially. Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Director Dr. Jeremy Wiggington says the federal government is paying for the vaccine itself with CARES Act funding, but there is a fee to administer the shot.
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Wiggington says while most health insurance companies will be paying the administrative fee for the vaccine if you don’t have insurance you might be charged.
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Wiggington says the vaccines will be rolled out in phases based on one’s age and health risks and it will likely take several months before the COVID vaccines are widely available like the flu shot.
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Last week frontline healthcare workers began receiving the Pfizer vaccine in Louisiana and this week the state also received its first shipments of Moderna vaccine. LDH has added vaccine data to the COVID dashboard.
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Amazon selects Carencro as the site of its first fulfillment center in Louisiana, with the 500 job facility expected to open a year from now. Governor John Bel Edwards says Amazon is investing 100 million dollars in the Lafayette Parish project.
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Amazon already operates two regional delivery stations in the state in New Orleans and Baton Rouge along with seven Whole Foods stores. The company also says they’ll be conducting Amazon Prime air operations out of Louis Armstrong International Airport.
Edwards says the location is the perfect site for a shipping hub.
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Amazon currently employs about 1,500 Louisianans.
The company’s Director of Fulfillment Mark Marzano calls it a state of the art facility.
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The state unemployment rate fell 1.1 percent from October to 8.3 percent in November as we continue slowly regaining jobs lost earlier in the pandemic.
Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says every single market except Hammond gained jobs month-to-month…
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Month-to-month the state is up 18,500 jobs from October.
The unemployment rate is still just over three percent higher than it was a year ago, but Dejoie says we’re clawing back many of those lost jobs.
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The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state last month had 90-thousand fewer jobs than the previous November. The New Orleans metro area is responsible for about half of that number. Dejoie says the city’s job losses are historic
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Baton Rouge follows in 2nd for total year to year losses at 16,000, with hurricane-ravaged Lake Charles at 14,400, Lafayette at 9,000 and Shreveport at 7,400.