Politics & Policy

The Louisiana Public Service Commission’s business and executive session Zoom meeting was hacked at around 10 a.m. this morning.

Mayor Sharon Weston Broom today announced the city is moving forward in its effort to create a 9-mile rapid bus line from Plank Road to Nicholson Drive, by formally accepting a $15 million grant to fund the bus route. 

A plan to redevelop a portion of Government Street in Mid City to include a gourmet wine shop and epicurean market, a bar and commissary with outdoor seating, and an Aveda barbershop concept cleared a key hurdle Monday, when the Planning Commission approved a rezoning request to allow for alcohol sales at the site.

Lawmakers using census data to redraw political districts will try to avoid pitting incumbents against each other, says state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican

One-third of health care workers surveyed across Louisiana are not convinced vaccines are necessary to end the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the preliminary results of a Louisiana Department of Health survey of roughly 10,000 medical workers.

While the city-parish has struggled over the years to find money to increase pay for police and  public works employees, as well as matching funds for drainage projects, it has managed to dole out small economic development grants each year to a handful of recipients.

About 80% of Louisiana policyholders who are insured through FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program would pay more under pending changes to how the program evaluates and prices risk, according to a new report. 

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, says Washington, D.C., politics are keeping a federal disaster aid package from reaching hurricane victims,

Demand for natural gas has risen in recent months while the supply has fallen, causing prices to spike domestically and especially overseas.