On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was shot at close range by two police officers outside a Baton Rouge convenience store. Sterling, 37, was black; the officers, white.
In case you’ve forgotten, with all of the coverage of the new coronavirus pandemic and the civil unrest gripping the county, 2020 is still election year in Louisiana.
Even as Louisiana ventures into Phase One of the Trump administration’s Opening Up America Again economic rejuvenation plan, the novel coronavirus continues to kick the state’s budget in the behind.
Even a “just deal with it” person like me has to have a soft spot for the Lincoln Parish high school seniors and their peers across the country who won’t get to graduate in the traditional fashion because of the novel coronavirus.
News reports from Baton Rouge indicate that, for the most part, state lawmakers are satisfied with the way Gov. John Bel Edwards is handling the coronavirus pandemic.
