Louisiana Shrimp, Petroleum Festival Draws Attention Amid Oil Woes
MORGAN CITY, La. | Some people might find it odd that this city near Louisiana's southern coast has a Shrimp and Petroleum Festival . Somehow the two don't seem to go together. But some local citizens get a bit testy if you ask them about that juxtaposition. They say it's really a harvest festival, and that people here "harvest" oil from the sea in the same way that they harvest shrimp. It ...
1st-time jobless claims stable in Louisiana
First-time unemployment claims in Louisiana last week remained just about unchanged from the previous week. The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports 4,120 initial claims for jobless benefits for the week ending Aug. 28.
Louisiana Politics: August Of Earl and Huey Long
BATON ROUGE (Capitol News Service)—With a conservative Republican occupying the governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, it’s not likely that any official commemoration will be given the dates of September 5 and September 10 this year. Other than a symposium at the Old State Capitol, sponsored by Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, no other official functions show up on the radar. For a state so steeped ...