Does the average Louisiana citizen have a legal right to follow the internal workings of government in Louisiana? Not just in Baton Rouge at the state capital, but in deliberations that take place by school boards, city councils, police juries and any other sanctioned public body? For the past 50 years, open meetings and public records availability we’re stronger in the Bayou State than any other place in the country. Now I know that some readers of this column may wonder why making public...
No need to shush at this Louisiana library. It’s the best in the state.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police are investigating a fatal shooting in southeast Albuquerque Saturday morning. Officers responded to reports of shots fired just before 11:00 a.m. near Central and Louisiana. One person was taken to the hospital where he later died. The investigation is ongoing. KRQE will release new information when it becomes available.
Elie Mystal In a topsy-turvy ruling, the conservatives on the Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to use a VRA-compliant congressional map while the liberals dissented.
It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could. It was quite a show and people turned out to watch. According to the Opelousas Clarion-News, the hundreds of onlookers who lined Union Street to cheer for the convoy included “veterans, young Sub-Debs thrilled by the soldiers in khaki, housewives and businessmen.” The soldiers left St.
TUSCALOOSA, AL — SE Louisiana scored three runs in each of the third and fifth innings on their way to a 6-2 win over No. 21 Clemson on Friday afternoon in the opening game of the Tuscaloosa
The move opens a new front in the fight over abortion pills and could threaten to further restrict access in a state that bans almost all abortions.
The move opens a new front in the fight over abortion pills and could threaten to further restrict access in a state that bans almost all abortions.
Many lawmakers support keeping anti-LGBTQ+ trigger law on the books, sponsor says. By Piper Hutchinson, Louisiana Illuminator Republican lawmakers plan to leave in a section of the Louisiana constitution that defines marriage as between one man and one woman during a potential constitutional rewrite despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Louisiana Republican Rep. Beau Beaullieu of New Iberia, the lawmaker carrying the legislation calling for a constitutional convention, said his conservative...
(OSV News) — A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young man from entering the church where 60 children were preparing to receive their first Communion. Police took the suspect into […] The post Louisiana first Communion Mass disrupted by gunman first appeared on OSV News.
Research shows that Louisiana had 43 million visitors in 2023. This was 420,000 more than in 2022.
Some possession of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol could become criminalized in Louisiana, after state lawmakers attached a last-minute amendment to an anti-abortion bill that would reclassify the two pills as “controlled dangerous substances.” The amendment would criminalize possession of the drugs, which are used to induce an abortion, without a valid prescription or order from a medical practitioner. A pregnant woman who obtains mifepristone or misoprostol “for her own...