Politics & Policy

Government decisions, legislation, elections, and public policy shaping business and daily life across the Baton Rouge region and Louisiana.

Court reinstates Formosa’s St. James plant permit, but project’s economics remain bleak 

Last week, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision...

‘LaPolitics’: Louisiana’s new congressional map means the emergence of new politics

State Sen. Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge broke what may have been the least...

New BRPD chief preaches importance of being proactive to deter crime

New Baton Rouge Police Department Chief TJ Morse touted the importance of being strategic...

How Angola has become essential to the U.S. food supply 

A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here in Louisiana, at an unlikely source—the former slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison: Angola. 

Louisiana’s congressional delegation assails Biden’s LNG terminal pause 

Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and  U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy and...

In which congressional district will Garret Graves run for office next?  

Congressman Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, has said he will run for reelection no matter what. The question is where will he run.
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Rolfe McCollister: Ideas for Baton Rouge’s next mayor

There is an organization, the International City/County Management Association, that includes professionals who manage...

Small business owners take their succession problems to Congress 

Succession planning is a sore spot for small businesses.

What happened to the saltwater wedge in the Mississippi River?

The intrusion of salt water upstream into the Mississippi River is no longer a...

Further slowing of inflation seen as supporting Fed’s ‘soft landing’ goal 

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled further last month even as the economy...
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