By Jeremy Alford & Mitch Rabalais LaPolitics.com Known best by Baton Rouge’s Capitol class as a soft-spoken, influential donor and philanthropist, Eddie Rispone may soon add gubernatorial candidate to his portfolio. Rispone, a Republican, told […]
At last – finally. Congress has approved four years after okaying the funding for a $760 million hurricane protection levee to protect the east bank of St. John the Baptist Parish and parts of neighboring […]
There’s a fabulous building in the center of New Orleans that has not been used for several years and, hopefully, will come to a use in the not-too-distant future. It is commonly known as the […]
By Jeremy Alford & Mitch Rabalais LaPolitics.com Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor should consider running for office together on an old-fashioned ticket, and next year’s incumbents should be watching their backs for a very […]
It seems Louisiana has an interesting disagreement between two of its public officials who reportedly are both contemplating running for governor in the next state election. Gov. John Bel Edwards and Attorney Jeff Landry have […]
By Jeremy Alford & Mitch Rabalais LaPolitics.com In what is snowballing into a legislative record of sorts, both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature have so far concluded 10 special elections, including a single-candidate House race […]
Louisiana sales tax holidays are no more until 2025. The tax holidays were slashed in a measure passed in the third extraordinary session of the Louisiana Legislature, which was aimed at quelling the state’s budget […]
By Mitch Rabalais & Jeremy Alford LaPolitics.com By the mid-1980s, gas prices were at record lows as foreign oil flooded the marketplace and Louisiana, having collected millions in severance taxes during the preceding decade, was […]
Our new governor is suddenly achieving some accomplishments. After several months in which a stalemate threatened, he finally got a compromise on the budget and taxes that gave us hope for the future. Now he […]
By Jeremy Alford & Mitch Rabalais, LaPolitics.com How does $250,000 sound? That was the one-night take for U.S. Sen. John Kennedy at a recent New Orleans fundraiser. The event’s headliner, however, had as much political […]
By Sarah Gamard, Mitch Rabalais & Jeremy Alford LaPolitics.com A handful of bills extending half of the expiring fifth penny in the state sales tax structure have been filed for this year’s third special session, […]
After last year’s catastrophic hurricane season and Subtropical Storm Alberto kicking off this year’s Atlantic hurricane season before it began, the need to be prepared is clear. “2017 was marked with record-setting disasters,” said Red […]
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