Julie O'Donoghue (Louisiana Illuminator)
The Louisiana Illuminator-
State officials say they cannot stop residents from being taken to sites deemed inadequate
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The state struggles to attract employees to work in its juvenile justice facilities.
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Public health officials across the country have complained they don’t have nearly enough monkeypox vaccine to meet demand for a growing outbreak. As of Friday, Louisiana has been allocated a little over 9,200 of the over 1 million shots the U.S. Government is distributing, though it won’t receive all of those doses at once.
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CrescentCare, New Orleans best-known health care provider for the LGBTQ+ community, ran out of monkeypox vaccine doses Tuesday and doesn’t know when it will receive more.
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The Louisiana Department of Health is making its limited supply of monkeypox vaccine available to men who have had sex with at least two men in the past 14 days or who have had sex with an anonymous male partner.
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The Louisiana Senate has canceled a veto override session scheduled for later this month after Republican legislative leaders signaled efforts to overturn Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ vetoes would likely fail.
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Most obstetrics and gynecology medical residents in Louisiana train at a Shreveport abortion clinic. Now, it’s not clear where they will get that surgical instruction when most abortions likely become illegal in Louisiana and the clinic is shut down.
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The state of Louisiana has set aside $9 million to buy 2,000 acres of swampland in St. James and Lafourche parishes that is partly owned by Charles DeWitt, a former House speaker and Public Service Commissioner.
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Senator committee deems proposal to be too expensive for state government
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Gov. John Bel Edwards has used his veto power to give higher education faculty a larger pay raise than the one legislators approved last month.