Politics & Policy

This week marks five months since the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 as a...

• Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to give an update on the state’s...

Incoming freshmen at LSU will move into their dorms starting Wednesday and many are concerned the university’s measures for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks are not strict enough to contain the virus, possibly causing LSU to shut down early again. New policies for residents include no guests, mandatory mask use outside of dorms and showers, increased cleaning for shared spaces and procedures for infected residents and their roommates to quarantine.

• The Louisiana Department of Health said today’s data on COVID-19 cases is likely...

Though teachers, parents and some students fear the reopening of schools with in-person learning...

Jason DeCuir, a trusted ally of the business lobby and the chairman of the...

In a meeting this morning of the Louisiana Economic Recovery Task Force, Dr. Stephen Barnes, an economist at UL-Lafayette and a member of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference, said data suggests the economic downturn will last longer and be harder to recover from than originally thought. “While we had initially hoped this would be a much shorter event, as time passes more and more permanent damage is being done,” Barnes said. “That is going to give you a recovery path that might look more and more like the Great Recession did than the recovery after an event like Katrina.”

• The Louisiana Department of Health reported 1,345 new COVID-19 cases today and another...

• Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence...

• Louisiana's COVID-19 hospitalizations continued a trend of modest decreases today, while the state...