The Louisiana State Voting Rights Act (SB 365): why the combat for equal safety can’t wait
Final month the Energy Coalition for Fairness and Justice, over 20 of our companion 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 DOC may grant earlier launch to terminally ailing individuals
Printed by the LSU Manship Faculty Statehouse BureauThe Louisiana Legislature has forwarded a proposal that might enable terminally ailing inmates to be launched as much as 120 days earlier than their anticipated dying, doubling the present 60-day window for early…
Meta triples order of gas-fired energy vegetation for its AI campus in Louisiana
Meta will be capable to energy greater than 5 million houses with the ten gas-fired energy vegetation that it ordered for its large Hyperion AI knowledge middle complicated in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana, which is outwardly increasing from its…
Proposal would require Louisiana to ship each voter’s private data to Homeland Safety
This story was initially revealed by the Louisiana Illuminator. Louisiana lawmakers have superior a invoice to require that state election officers ship private data on all registered voters to the federal authorities for additional scrutiny. Gerald “Beau” Beaullieu, IV Home…
After Texas anti-ICE terror conviction, Louisiana cannot afford to remain silent
Lower than two months after ICE deployed in giant numbers to Louisiana, 9 protesters in Texas have been convicted of federal fees together with “terror” for a noise demonstration in assist of immigrants held on the Prairieland Detention Middle in…
Regardless of scant plans and heated criticism, Louisiana Senate committee passes payments to overtake New Orleans courts
On Tuesday afternoon, a Senate judiciary committee handed three payments targeted on drastically overhauling New Orleans courts, reducing 10 judgeships throughout Orleans Parish judiciary and one clerk of court docket, incoming clerk Calvin Duncan, who was decisively elected to supervise…
Cease constructing prisons and begin investing in youngsters: the confirmed roadmap that Louisiana has ignored for 25 years
Each time the Louisiana legislature goes into session, I take into consideration the dad and mom who first walked by way of the doorways of our group 25 years in the past, in search of assist for his or her…
M&A Report: Louisiana corporations develop by means of strategic acquisitions
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Michelli completes a number of acquisitions, increasing nationwide footprint Chouest enters offshore decommissioning with CES deal Sazerac acquires Soiled Shirley ready-to-drink cocktail model Bally’s to accumulate Sam’s City On line casino in Shreveport G.T. Michelli Firm continues…
Louisiana approves energy abandonment plan, however hope stays for some
WDSU Investigates has uncovered new particulars and a significant replace in our WDSU investigation, Sportsman’s Paradise Deserted. Tons of of property homeowners have remained with out energy since Hurricane Ida, and on Wednesday, the state took drastic motion.In line with…
Who’s doing youngster welfare higher than Louisiana? Right here’s the reply.
This story was initially printed by the Louisiana Illuminator. Confronted with the failure of the Division of Kids and Household Providers, lawmakers and directors in Louisiana have responded the way in which they do in most states: They slapped a baby’s title…