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March 29, 2023
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Columns

Budget process taking on a new shape

May 14, 2018 Jeremy Alford

The Senate Finance Committee started the process Monday morning of wrapping up its deliberations over the state budget by taking sometimes-tearful testimony from the public. […]

Columns

House Republican chair targets agency heads

April 24, 2018 Jeremy Alford

The last bill that Rep. Lance Harris managed to file for the ongoing regular session seeks to add “new layers of transparency” to the way agency and department heads do their state jobs and earn money. […]

Government

Bill aims to put ‘In God We Trust’ in schools

April 9, 2018 Ryan Arena

A bill moving to the Senate floor that would require public school districts to display “In God We Trust” in each of its school buildings may have been voted on unanimously by the Louisiana Senate Education Committee, but some local School Board officials haven’t embraced the move. […]

Columns

Legislature hosting a bit of election action, too

December 9, 2016 Jeremy Alford

Even though the regular campaign season for the Louisiana Legislature won’t come around again until 2019, there’s already one open seat that will be decided by a special election next year and more could soon follow. […]

Columns

Legislature to consider fantasy gaming wagers

April 15, 2016 Jeremy Alford

Rep. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, is already facing opposition to his HB 676 to legalize fantasy gaming — think football, basketball and baseball — before the bill has even had its first hearing. […]

Columns

Republicans positioned for small gains in Legislature

November 6, 2015 Jeremy Alford

While not by much more compared to the current term, Republicans will continue to have a majority in the Legislature. […]

Columns

Business scorecard delivers poor grades for most of Legislature

July 17, 2015 Jeremy Alford

The annual legislative scorecard compiled by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry was released Tuesday and includes a grade of “F” for 94 members of the Louisiana Legislature. […]

Columns

By 2020, half of state legislature may be gone

January 23, 2015 Jeremy Alford

Term limits were approved by Louisiana voters in 1995 by a vote of 76 percent, but they didn’t go into effect until roughly eight years ago. […]

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