A Louisiana lawmaker has proposed legislation that would position the state to receive nearly $200 million in federal funding to fix abandoned oil and gas wells.Â
An in-house Louisiana State Police investigator says his recommendation to supervisors to have a trooper arrested following the in-custody death of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist, was ignored.Â
The Louisiana Economic Development agency is proposing to change a state incentive that gives companies an annual rebate on a portion of their payroll and sales taxes, and two prominent business groups think it’s a bad idea.
A panel that’s evaluating Louisiana’s next choice for voting machine technology chose today to give itself more time to take a closer look at options.
Republican leaders in the Louisiana Legislature ended the political redistricting session last week refusing to disclose more information about a government contract with a law firm hired to advise lawmakers drawing new political maps.
Louisiana lawmakers reflected on their actions over the past two weeks as the Legislature’s redistricting session is expected to end today with its Republican majority having defeated attempts at shifting political boundaries to create greater minority representation in Congress, the Legislature, on the state school board and on the Louisiana Supreme Court.