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 | Jan 21, 2024 | Legislature, Louisiana
It’s morning in Louisiana! After decades, Louisiana is no longer allowing registered Democrats to select the candidate that will represent the Republican brand on an election ballot. Fixing this problem was announced as a top priority of the Jeff Landry...
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,...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 10, 2023 | Legislature
There was a fisherman in the Atchafalaya Basin who one day came upon a beautiful ornate bottle in the muck and the mud. He picked it up and observed it was sealed with a cork, but despite being empty it was unusually heavy. Curious of his findings he set about to...