Category Archives: Politics & Government

Those of you who owe fees and unpaid fines to the Office of Motor Vehicles, the state is offering some much-needed relief. The OMV has recalled fees previously referred to the Office of Debt Recovery ...

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agent cited a Vermilion Parish man for alleged hunter harassment. LDWF Sgt. Justin Sonnier says this citation followed a complaint filed on October 24 by...

Meet the new House speaker - same as the old House speaker. House Republicans have unanimously selected Shreveport-area Congressman Mike Johnson as speaker of the 119th Congress. "We have to deliver f...

The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would apply sales taxes to 41 services currently not taxed. This would generate 500 million dollars in tax revenues and help offset the los...

Denham Springs Representative Roger Wilder has decided not to move forward with a bill that would dramatically increase the tax rate for online sports betting, from 15% to 51%. Wilder filed the bill t...

Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves is hailing the overwhelming House passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. The bill that passed 327 to 75 eliminates the Windfall Elimination Penalty and the Go...

The Louisiana House has approved two significant pieces of Governor Jeff Landry's tax plan. The first bill to head to the Senate for its approval is a measure reduce individual income taxes to a flat ...

Several media outlets are reporting Republicans will retain control of the U-S House completing the GOP trifecta in Washington. In a press conference today on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, House Spea...

Which Louisianians could be considered for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet? LSU-Shreveport Political Science Professor Jeffrey Sadow says the most likely one to join the new Trump administratio...

A Federal Judge in Baton Rouge issued a temporary injunction against Louisiana's law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, preventing it from taking effect. This ruling f...