
Failure of Louisiana Amendment 2 to heavily affect upcoming fiscal session
The overwhelming failure of Amendment 2 on Saturday will be a game-changer for the upcoming fiscal session. Jeremy Alford, the editor at LaPolitics.com, says had it passed, it would have been a relatively quiet session. Now, not so much. "We're going to hear debates again over the income tax, which lowering that w...
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LPSO agents take down "hybrid" street gang
The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office has taken down a street gang -- but this one is a little out of the ordinary. Deputies arrested seven members of the Motion Gang on various charges, including attempted first-degree murder, drug possession and weapons charges. Sheriff Jason Ard says this gang is known as a "h...
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Amendment 2 author: "We learned a lot of lessons from it"
The author of Amendment 2 is speaking out following its defeat over the weekend. Julie Emerson (R-Carencro) says the reason she authored the amendment as a broad rewrite of Article 7 of the state constitution is because there had been so many changes to it over the years, so she wanted to basically wipe the slate clean...
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Southwest Louisiana mother arrested in the death of her 16-month old. The toddler died in 1970
It took more than a half century, but an arrest has finally been made in the 1970 death of a 16-month-old boy. 76-year-old Alice Bunch Idlett of Norwood has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of her toddle. Sulphur Police Chief John Wall says his investigators reopened the case in 2022 at ...
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Jan Moeller says Louisiana voters rejected Governor Jeff Landry's Constitutional Amendments
Louisiana voters overwhelmingly rejected four constitutional amendments, a political setback for Governor Jeff Landry and the Republican-led Legislature. Landry promoted Amendment 2, a tax reform measure, as part of his broader economic strategy, but 65 percent of voters voted against it. Invest in Louisiana Executive ...
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