louisiana
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Louisiana Could Run Out Of Ventilators Next Week As Covid-19 Deaths Spike
The Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, warned on Wednesday that the state could run out of life-saving ventilators by next week after the number of covid-19 cases spiked dramatically in the past few days. Louisiana has currently identified at least 1,785 cases and 65 deaths from the new coronavirus, making it one of the…
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Two Cops Fired Over Facebook Post Suggesting Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Assassinated
Two police officers in Gretna, Louisiana in the U.S.A. have been fired over a Facebook post that suggested Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be killed. One of the officers published the content and another police officer liked it.
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An Oil Spill Near Louisiana Has Been Quietly Leaking For 10 Years
Everyone remembers the catastrophic oil spills like BP’s in 2010. Few remember the slow motion spills, like Taylor Energy’s, which has been drip drip dripping for all of the past 10 years — a leak shrouded in secrecy and seemingly impossible to fix.
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The Happiest And Saddest Places In The US As Told By Tweets
According to a team at the very not-real-sounding Vermont Complex Systems centre and based on what is surely a totally objective and not-at-all arbitrary analysis of tweets, the US-state of Louisiana is understandably (Katrina and blacking out the Super Bowl for two examples) the saddest state, while the holiday island Hawaii (sunshine, pineapple, knowing they…