With debate over the state budget set to go public next week, less controversial legislation is making its way through the legislative process, including bills by local legislators ...
Early voting totals indicate a slightly higher turnout across the district for the Court of Appeal runoff, but interest in Lafayette's school board sales tax is magnifying the parish's influence in the election ...
HB28 is one of five prestige plate-related bills to be considered today by the Louisiana House. AHS would be the only high school in the state with a special plate ...
House Republican leaders may propose a budget for the coming year. that would hold funding at current levels, according to reports. What that budget would look like and what cuts it would entail should begin to emerge today ...
A bi-partisan coalition of Louisiana advocates and NGOs will seek to advance bills aimed at ending the state's claim as the incarceration capital of America. Proponents argue that growth in the state's prison population has not made Louisiana safer ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...