by Jamie Pope | Apr 27, 2024 | Baton Rouge, Legislature
We are in the middle of Louisiana’s 2024 Regular session, which includes significant legislation on various topics, from education freedom to constitutional convention discussions. Naturally, covering every bill in this article is impossible, but we have been...
by Michael Lunsford | Apr 16, 2024 | Libraries, Louisiana, Sunshine
It must have been six or seven years ago when we discovered (quite by accident) that the library had morphed into something entirely different than what anyone understood. Back then, if anyone even breathed a question about the library, they were quickly denounced as...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 5, 2024 | Legislature
We have been talking about this for quite some time here at Citizens for a New Louisiana. Increasing crime rates and a lack of transparency in our criminal justice system. In a recent four-part series following the issuance of the Violent Crime Task Force report back...
by Michael Lunsford | Jun 30, 2023 | Libraries, Louisiana
Heather Cloud’s (R 8/10) fantastic SB7 (now Act 436) echoes policy language previously adopted by the Lafayette Library Board of Control on February 15th of this year. That language resolves some ambiguity surrounding age appropriate materials in the public...
by Michael Lunsford | Jun 19, 2023 | Legislature
Newspaper headlines and articles across the state are criticizing the Republican controlled legislature as it went on the biggest spending spree in Louisiana history. Our legislature was not legally entitled to spend every dollar of the enormous surplus. In Louisiana,...