Louisiana launches govt management program
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Louisiana Impression Fund and GrowthX Academy launched the cXo Management Program for future executives. The nine-month program will start in September 2026 with 15 individuals statewide. Louisiana Financial Improvement is supporting the initiative to retain high skilled expertise….
The boy within the video, the boy within the mugshot: Louisiana met Markel Lee twice
In 2024, a Baton Rouge teenager named Markel Lee was filmed for a violence-prevention program. Louisiana defunded this system. Two years later, a 17-year-old named Martha Odom is lifeless. The state would love us to file these two tales in…
Immunity for oil & fuel corporations are on the horizon if HB804 turns into legislation in Louisiana
On this episode of Behind the Lens, environmental reporter Emily Sanders breaks down Home Invoice 804, a proposal from Brett Geymann that would sharply restrict authorized claims in opposition to oil and fuel corporations for damages linked to emissions. The dialog explores how the invoice…
Davis Timber plans $1.9M Louisiana growth
KEY TAKEAWAYS: $1.9 million growth to boost timber manufacturing capabilities Mission anticipated to create 21 whole jobs, together with oblique roles New kiln-drying and processing operations to enhance effectivity Building underway with completion anticipated by January 2027 Davis Timber…
90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator believes that the state might do higher by abolishing DCFS altogether.
That is half 3 of the collection, Earlier than the Report: The Pipelines, which examines the insurance policies and practices that criminalize ladies When the banging begins, the clock reads 11:34 p.m. Shauna listened to her mom, who scrambled to…
Proposal fizzles to position air screens at Louisiana industrial amenities
The story was initially revealed by Louisiana Illuminator A proposal to require environmental air monitoring techniques at high-emission industrial amenities in Louisiana was left in limbo Tuesday and faces steep odds of transferring ahead. The air screens referred to as…
Australia vitality firm expands Louisiana LNG funding with $300M tugboat contract
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Woodside Vitality awards $300M contract to construct 4 tugboats in Plaquemines Parish Complete Louisiana provider spending for LNG challenge surpasses $1 billion Vessels will assist long-term LNG terminal operations beneath 20-year settlement Mission anticipated to create jobs and…
Enforceable ensures or pinky guarantees? A more in-depth have a look at Meta’s cope with Entergy Louisiana
To anybody paying consideration, Meta’s newest announcement a couple of second large knowledge heart, “Challenge Evest,” in Richland Parish shouldn’t come as a shock. However it raises the query: was this the plan all alongside? The Louisiana Public Service Fee…
The Louisiana State Voting Rights Act (SB 365): why the struggle for equal safety can’t wait
Final month the Energy Coalition for Fairness and Justice, over 20 of our associate organizations, and greater than 300 residents from throughout the state got here collectively on the garden of the state capitol with one easy message: we demand…
Louisiana Senate rejects modification to let newly elected clerk Calvin Duncan serve his time period
Louisiana’s full Senate voted 25-11 Tuesday to cross Senate Invoice 256, a proposal that may merge the clerk’s workplaces for Orleans Parish civil and prison district courts right into a single workplace. The vote eliminates the place of Calvin Duncan,…