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Republican Self Destruction
With friends like these, who needs enemies? Louisiana republicans are incapable of uniting even with a super majority. Democrat Ted James runs the speaker and the house. Maybe he is the leader everyone needs. You don't see democrats sacrificing each other in a fight...
State Legislators Want Control of Parks in Central, Louisiana
The honor among thieves in the Capitol is that legislators will not go against a bill concerning local politics. This leaves opportunity for questionable bills to be passed without push back. That will be the case with SB205, unless people show up to testify. Senator...
Now we’re building monuments to a race?
Say it ain't so! After all the brouhaha involved with the tearing down of monuments deemed "racist," there's now actually a bill in the Louisiana legislature to build a monument to a specific race!? You just have to check this one out for yourself.
Letters: Capps gets slapped for race baiting
Regarding Lafayette's decades of racist housing policies left lasting scars and still define city, by Andrew Capps. I just read the above referenced article and was quite shocked by what you claim as “facts”. It’s interesting that a 1923 ordinance that was passed, and...
Government Wants Control of Your Children Starting at Age Five
Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Why is this our approach with educating our children? Senator Cleo Fields wrote a bill that will remove parents' right to decide what is best for their children. Only,...
Voting machines for less than $100 Million
The estimate to replace all of Louisiana's voting machines is $100,000,000. When you stack up that amount of cheese, you'll attract some rats. However, there is a better solution. In fact, Louisiana has had their own solution to the voting machine conundrum for...
Drag Queens want to cancel Christians off the library board!?
Three years is a long time to carry a grudge. Yet, Friends of Drag Queen Story Time, Lessie Melancon and Dominique Ducote (who works for the Louisiana State Library in Baton Rouge), have actually filed a lawsuit to cancel a Catholic Christian from Lafayette's library...
The cancel culture wants me gone!
Our research was the catalyst that put $10 MILLION toward fixing Lafayette's flooding problems. What thanks do I get? The cancel culture wants me gone! Don't let that happen, join Citizens for a New Louisiana right here 👇👇👇...
Senator Bodi White’s tantrum at council meeting
by SarahJo Griggs, Central Speaks Indian giver. That’s the first word that comes to mind when recalling the March 9th council meeting. Senator Bode White stood before the Council and threw what I perceived a temper tantrum. He made the decision to take the two million...
Why Would JBE and Page Cortez Waste $3.2 Billion?
Louisiana improperly paid out more than $405 million in unemployment between January 2020 and September 2020. Even with this level of incompetence, John Bel Edwards and Page Cortez find replenishing this trust fund a top priority. Garret Graves and other officials are...