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You’re listening to Red River Radio News.
Good morning, I’m Jeff Ferrell.
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A coalition of advocacy groups is suing to block the Trump administration from deploying ICE agents to polling sites in November.
Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more:
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“Maryam Jazini Dorcheh, vice president of litigation at Common Cause, said the presence of armed federal agents at polling places would violate the law that protects voters from intimidation. MJD: “The law for the past 160 years explicitly prohibits armed officers from going to polling places. And we have observed from various actions from this administration that they are not following that law.” Common Cause, along with LULAC, UnidosUS and the city of Denver, are suing to declare unlawful any plans to have armed agents at polling places and to prohibit federal officers from carrying weapons near voting locations. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said recently that ICE officers could enter polling places to serve warrants or respond to a specific threat. Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has called on ICE to surround the polls. Trump administration officials have denied that they are planning to deploy ICE agents to the polls.”
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The Property Insurance Company of America — or PICA — has agreed to take over the commercial policies currently held by Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance.
Louisiana Public Radio’s Mel Bridges reports:
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“Citizens is an insurer of last resort — a state-backed program that provides coverage to businesses and homeowners that can’t afford a regular policy. At a press conference on Monday, Governor Jeff Landry said PICA would be taking over all commercial last-resort policies held by Citizens — a move Landry categorized as increasing competition and reducing reliance on one insurer. “But that's what happens when you change the way government thinks, when you stop telling people what Louisiana couldn't do, and when we just start doing it. And that confidence is exactly what we are bringing to the Louisiana insurance market.” The takeover is not automatic– commercial policyholders can choose whether or not to switch.”
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In Arkansas… the big political question has become:how do you put last week’s national midterm convention in Dallas into some kind of election narrative moving forward?
Speaking on the statewide, syndicated program “Talk Business & Politics,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette Columnist John Brummett suggested a campaign pitch for Republican candidates in the natural state:
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John Brummett/Columnist: “I think you say, ‘As the president told you, vote for me because you want to vote for him because we are keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and we are, the economy is bursting forth. Check your 401Ks, your IRAs. They’re doing good. President Trump did that. And that’s what he said down in Dallas. And I am proud to be associated with those causes and that record of economic accomplishment for our country. How is that?”
Roby Brock/Host: “And if you’re a Democrat, what do you say?”
John Brummett: “You just laugh at ‘em.”
Roby Brock: “Do you not talk about $4 gasoline and $7 diesel fuel and high grocery prices?”
John Brummett: “I think you do that.”
Roby Brock: “Which is the economy not doing as well as it should.”
John Brummett: “You do that, but you try to make the point that this is some crazy stuff.”
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The National Weather Service in Shreveport is calling for:
- No end in sight to summer heat – even with fall arriving one week from today… with a high today near 99 and heat index values as high as 108.
- Tomorrow: the ‘feels like max’ drops to 105, while the high falls a degree to 98.
- Then 97 Thursday and Friday & back to 98 Saturday.
- The next mention of showers & thunderstorms comes Monday.
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