Landry updatesposition on foodstamp benefits endingLouisiana GovernorJeff Landry today issuedand “update” to hiswarning about staterecipients losing theirSNAP, or foodstamp,benefits.He now says he isworking to make suresome residents continueto get funding for fooddespite the federalgovernment shutdown.

Citizens launch official recalleffort for Monroe Mayor FridayEllisThe Committee to Recall MayorFriday Ellis today announced theofficial recall effort for Mayor FridayEllis.The citizen-led committee filed thenecessary paperwork and is planningpublic petition campaigns to place arecall on the ballot in accordance withLouisiana law.

Louisiana sugarcane farmers say theydepend heavily on migrant workers fromMexicoIn the late summer heat, the hours move likemolasses.Still, across the cane fields of South Louisiana,migrant workers from Mexico brave the sun andpunishing humidity to plant sugarcane. They comefrom the mountains of Guanajuato and San LuísPotosí, or the tropical coast of Veracruz, working thefields, often up to 70 hours a week.Their …