by Michael Lunsford | Dec 16, 2024 | Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine
It’s not a new dance craze sweeping the nation or the latest internet challenge (think Ice Bucket Challenge). No, DOGE is a backronym that famed billionaire Elon Musk created or at least popularized. It stands for “Department of Government...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 25, 2024 | Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Sunshine
Betting on the wrong horse is a common saying we are accustomed to. Taken literally, it is when you bet or place money on the horse that doesn’t win the race. But it has also come to mean everything from making bad investments to wrong decisions. In the political...
by Michael Lunsford | Jun 24, 2024 | Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine
A few years ago, someone I respect asked me a simple yet piercing question: How do you define RINO? If you aren’t familiar with the term, it’s an acronym for Republican In Name Only. The answer was simple at the time—at least for Louisiana House of...
by Michael Lunsford | Jan 13, 2024 | Baton Rouge, Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine
Louisiana Conservatives are dealing with a shock announcement dropped late Friday evening. After riding to power on the largest Conservative mandate issued in our lifetimes, Republican House and Senate leaders decided to issue some committee chairmanships to...
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,...