WASHINGTON - Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales, shared his perspective on what’s going on in Washington as part of today’s NPMA Legislative Day General Session & Keynote Address, sponsored by Corteva AgriScience.
Gonzales reviewed the 2020 election results in which Democrats captured the White House and picked up three seats in the Senate, while the Republicans gained 12 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Gonzales said he’s not seeing the Republican party “go off into the political wilderness and start to search for their soul” as is usually the case after losing a Presidential election and control of the Senate.
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Louisiana State University researchers recently published findings that blight leads to an increased abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes. The researchers investigated the presence of several mosquito species in two adjacent but socio-economically contrasting neighborhoods in Baton Rouge: the historic Garden District, a high-income neighborhood, and the Old South neighborhood, a low-income area. They found significantly higher adult and larvae abundance of the Asian tiger mosquito (a carrier of Zika and dengue) and higher mosquito habitat availability particularly discarded tires in the Old South neighborhood. This indicates that environmental conditions in the low-income neighborhood were most ideal for this mosquito to breed and proliferate.