Meet the candidates: District 9 voters can hear directly from the candidates vying for the district’s Metro Council seat during a forum taking place at 7 p.m. tonight at the Jones Creek Library, 6222 Jones Creek Road. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Outgoing District 9 Metro Council Joel Boé is hosting the forum. Local media veteran Clay Young will moderate. All five candidates for Metro Council District 9 have been invited to participate. Candidates will give opening remarks, answer questions that have been submitted in writing by members of the audience, and then provide closing remarks. Candidates vying for the seat are Democrats Eugene Collins, “Jim” Mora and Kennedy Ugbo, and Republicans Kenneth Perret and Dwight Hudson.
On the mend: Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Don Briggs, who was injured Sept. 30 in an accidental fall while vacationing in North Carolina, has slowly shown improvement and has been moved to Lafayette for treatment, The Advertiser reports. LOGA says in an statement issued on Monday that Gifford Briggs, LOGA vice president, has been named acting LOGA president pending his father’s return. Briggs sustained a serious head injury after slipping in the stairway at a home in North Carolina. He was treated at Mission Health Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina—where he had been airlifted—until he was well enough to be moved. LOGA will provide additional updates on his condition as they become available, the statement says. Read the full story.
Still waiting: The head of the NAACP in Louisiana is urging federal officials to update their progress investigating the shooting death of Alton Sterling by a police officer in Baton Rouge more than three months ago. Ernest Johnson tells USA Today that he believes people will become concerned about the slowness of the investigation if some response isn’t seen by the end of the month. Sterling, a black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer on July 5. Community members and Sterling’s aunt, Sandra Sterling, have already express frustration with the pace of the investigation. Johnson says the Sterling investigation has been overshadowed by August flooding that devastated communities in Baton Rouge. But he says that will change by next month when the community demands more action. Read the full story.
