Governor John Bel Edwards
Governor Edwards wrapped up the first day of the Legislative session Monday with a speech at Mumford Stadium on the campus of Southern University outlining his hopes for the next two months.
Edwards challenged lawmakers not to allow the state to return to the pre-pandemic normal, but to something better, highlighting his support for equal pay, minimum wage increases, and other reforms.
‘Tragedies like the ones we faced often remind us of our shared humanity, but then things start to get back to normal and we forget that the road to recovery is much longer and more difficult,” said Edwards.
If Louisianaâs college graduates hoped for the âcollege experience,â they got both: college and an experience, especially these past nine months.
Thatâs what graduates likely thought this month and last as they concluded their academic programs and set out on the rest of their life journeys. If study during the novel coronavirus was not what they had signed up for, it was nonetheless what they overcame.
In south Louisiana, eight of nine University of Louisiana System institutions marked or are marking graduation with some type of in-person celebration. The ninth, the University of New Orleans, held a ârollingâ graduation with students in their vehicles, one last, last joyous ride through campus.