Politics & Policy

BESE asks lawmakers for additional $40M in K-12 funding

Louisiana’s top school board is expected to send state lawmakers a nearly $4 billion...

Speak no evil

Companies are being pushed by employees and customers to take public stands on controversial issues, but executives are learning the hard way that some opinions are best kept quiet.

Pay raises proposed for Baton Rouge airport police, city constables

City constables and Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport police are in line to receive a pay raise under a plan the Broome administration will introduce to the Metro Council at its meeting Wednesday.

Louisiana widens vaccine access for preexisting conditions

On the one-year anniversary of its first confirmed COVID-19 case, Louisiana is widening coronavirus...

‘Here we are again’: Louisiana 50th in ‘U.S. News’ ranking of best states

Not for the first time, Louisiana has scored dead last in a ranking of the 50 states published by U.S. News. In its annual Best States Rankings, the publication draws on “thousands of data points to measure how well states are performing for their citizens,” and concludes that Louisiana is failing in all the major areas that count.

DDD cancels second meeting as executive director battles COVID-19 in hospital

Downtown Development District Executive Director Davis Rhorer has been hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19, which has shaken up the organization for much of the first quarter of 2021.
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Breaking down the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act

Senate Democrats voted to advance the latest round of the stimulus bill, which now...

Alford: Wildlife department reaches fiscal crossroads

Lower oil prices and a stagnant fee structure have prompted officials at the Department...

Louisiana’s public universities hoping to avoid budget cuts

After losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the COVID-19 pandemic, Louisiana’s public universities...

Woman’s Hospital, H&E, Materra seek annexation into Baton Rouge

Woman’s Hospital, H&E Equipment Services and Materra Development have filed a petition with the...