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And agreement on the rebuild of the hospital. we have been using temporary shelters for our children, who have been not only dealing with hurricanes five years ago but covid, that have kept them out of schools. we are seeing tremendous issues with them both socially and academically. i just have to give kudos to the teachers and to the parents and to the kids who have done a tremendous job during that time. we are seeing road projects being rebuilt. were supposed to rebuild our entire utility sy...

The Lafayette city and parish councils are meeting together through the end of August to hammer out the details of the 2022-23 budget

The Lafayette city and parish councils are meeting together through the end of August to hammer out the details of the 2022-23 budget

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Minutes the state legislature will begin its second special session. notably absent, the 57 house democrats who left the state weeks ago to block the restrictive voting bill. joining me is tennessee congressman, a member of the house judiciary and transportation committees. happy saturday to you and thanks for being with us. obviously infrastructure, transportation, both issues near and dear to your heart. if the senate gets to this the finish line, do you think if a vote were held in the house ...

Powell, speaking on a livestreamed event, said interest rates will be raised "no time soon" and there will be plenty of notice "well in advance of active consideration."

When you have a forecast of 30 inches, the math doesnt work. we have extra capacity here. we havent seen the rain that we thought we would get. were seeing a pesky wind, 40 to 50 miles an hour sustained winds and its placing havoc on our utility system. currently 30% of the city is out of power. we have 7 poles on the ground, the wind is too strong right now for utility crews getting the bucket trucks. were preparing for as soon as the weather blows over to get back up there. >> you were telling...

Help other people. so the idea that government would want to get rid of want and provide this utopian society. >> neil: they get creative raising money. in new jersey, they want taxes. how toes that work? >> they say salt, fertilizer. when it rains, it goes into the water system. they dont have anything to capture here. they have the ninth highest gas tax in the country. the sixth highest income tax in the country. the number 1 property tax in the country and theyre racked 50th worst state for b...

Reported in the tallahassee leon county area. were aware of two deaths in neighboring counties, and our hearts go out to them and their families. here, in tallahassee, different than the coast. the threat was different. ours was always going to be wind and rain. saturated ground that would obviously topple trees with the kind of wind gusts and sustained winds we had yesterday during the storm. today, we have about 110,000 utility customers that are out of power. we have seen thousands of trees t...

A different mission and got word that this thing was looking like it was going to make its way our way, and immediately got back here. between that evening and today we really had to ready ourselves rather quickly. on the good side, i will tell you in my community -- i mean we felt really prepared for this storm event. we were able to very quickly get over 100, 150 utility workers from across the state of florida and really across the country, as far away as nebraska, here on the ground, ready. ...