Governor John Bel Edwards announced on Friday, August 7 that he would be petitioning President Trump to fully fund the deployment of the Louisiana National Guard through December 31, 2020. Without it, Louisiana could be on the hook for $10 million. Title 32, Section 502(f) of the United States Code provides that the National Guard […]
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. It’s the middle of the summer, and the coronavirus has not gone away. When the pandemic first began, some had hoped that there’d be a lull during the summer, with the heat […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the largest economies in the world since China reported the first confirmed case in December 2019. The disease started spreading rapidly in Europe and the United States in February. The growth domestic product of China grew by 3 percent in the second quarter of the year while that of […]
Former Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has died due to COVID-19. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and conservative political pundit became nationally famous when, as a 2012 contender for the Republican presidential nomination, he introduced his “9-9-9 Plan”. The idea was to keep it as simple as possible, with a nine percent sales tax, a nine […]
The New Orleans Saints veteran players officially began reporting to Training Camp yesterday, and in a video conference call with reporters, General Manager Mickey Loomis said that the entire team basically will first began immediate testing for COVID-19; and that an actual football practice on the field is likely still a few weeks away. But […]
A Richwood, Louisiana, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, run by LaSalle Corrections, has seen a rash of Covid-19 cases. LaSalle Corrections is a privately-owned company that has businesses in Texas and Georgia, as well as in Louisiana. According to whistleblowers, the Covid-19 outbreak has been handled with lies, deceit, and apathy that goes […]
As the new school year fast approaches, whether and how to reopen is caught up in the ongoing novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Is it safe for students to attend brick-and-mortar classrooms? Can we make it safer? And should they attend classes even if we can’t? With a scheduled start date of Aug. 12 […]
With the coronavirus / COVID-19 health-crisis continuing to spread rapidly throughout the continental Unites States of America at an alarming rate, several key players for the New Orleans Saints yesterday voiced their concerns over what they feel has been a lack of serious effort on the part of the NFL to keep them safe once […]
A shortage of raw materials needed for machines used to process COVID-19 tests led to testing sites and hospitals in New Orleans and across the state scaling back available testing, even as COVID-19 cases are spiking. According to data from John Hopkins University, Louisiana once again has the fastest rate of COVID-19 case growth in […]
One of the silent killers behind Covid lockdown has been domestic abuse and violence. And it has been as cross-cultural and indifferent as coronavirus – countries all across the globe have reported increased violence at home, typically against women and children. At the start of lockdown, UK’s largest domestic abuse charity, Refuge, reported a […]
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