by Letters to the Editor | Jan 24, 2024 | Breaux Bridge, Sunshine
By: Delores Boudreaux You promote your organization as a watch dog for good and transparent government. I request that you comment about the underhanded action of the City of Breaux Bridge on September 12, 2023. On that date the city amended its budget adopted months...
by Michael Lunsford | Nov 6, 2023 | About Us, Louisiana
As a non-profit, it’s not often we talk about our own successes. It’s even less frequent that I appeal to you, dear reader, to directly engage in our efforts to remake Louisiana into something new. However, I believe that occasionally you need to be...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 17, 2023 | St. Martin
“Back the blue” is a phrase that broadly means to support law enforcement officers (LEOs). While peace officer is a much better term to describe traditional constitutional policing, it has been supplanted with LEO, a term which to some degree has a different meaning....
by Editorial Staff | May 10, 2022 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The question has been asked, should a person or their family be able to directly benefit from their status as a legislator? In our experience it’s been quite common to hear about spouses of lawmakers who are lobbyists, or at least employed by a business...
by Michael Lunsford | Jan 12, 2022 | LCG
It seems the Advocate just can’t leave success alone. Regular readers will remember that a year and a half ago, Citizens for a New Louisiana began to look into the interworking (or lack thereof) of the Bayou Vermilion District (BVD). Since then, they’ve...