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Louisiana's GOP-Dominated Legislature Concludes Three-Month-Long Regular Session
US News & World Report· 6 hours agoThe regular session was the first under Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, marking a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana. In January, Landry replaced Democrat John & ...
Louisiana law makes it crime to stand too near police
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA nearly identical bill was vetoed last year by then-Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat. Edwards called the measure ...
Landry declines to reappoint Louisiana’s prison chief but will keep him in the job
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLandry’s office declined to comment on why the governor didn’t reappoint LeBlanc as secretary of the...
New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
WKRN Nashville· 5 days agoBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25...
Gov. Landry’s controversial juvenile justice leader gains Senate confirmation
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoAfter months of expressing reservations over Gov. Jeff Landry’s pick to run the state’s juvenile...
Legislative leaders want to spend $700 million in extra revenue on road and water projects
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 6 days agoA year ago, a bloc of conservatives nearly blocked a similar infrastructure spending plan that...
Lawmakers give Landry control over ethics board amid dispute over discipline
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLouisiana lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to give Gov. Jeff Landry control over the Louisiana Board...
Sidney Coffee: Proposed changes to CPRA undermine its purpose
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 5 days agoUnder Gov. Kathleen Blanco, we reorganized state government to address our coastal crisis by uniting...
Louisiana Supreme Court suspends lawyer after ‘bizzare’ try to claim seat of governor, president
WVLA Baton Rouge via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMoses argued in Moses vs. Edwards that John Bel Edwards and Donald Trump, then the governor and ...
Louisiana may soon require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 4 days agoLouisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a Republican-dominated ...