Category Archives: Politics & Government
Landry files lawsuit to lower the cost of insulin
Because the cost of insulin has risen from $20 a vial to anywhere between $300 and $700 since the 1990s, Attorney General Jeff Landry is taking on manufacturers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. "We beli...
Mar 14, 2023
Scalise touts GOP's "Lower Energy Costs Act." Will POTUS sign it?
District 1 Congressman and House majority leader Steve Scalise says the Lower Energy Costs Act can help families struggling to make ends meet and put Americans back to work producing energy...but only...
Mar 13, 2023 Rep Steve Scalise (R) - LA
Waguespack says he can keep residents from leaving Louisiana as governor
Republican and former president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry Stephen Waguespack is also running for governor. As the fifth Republican to join the race he said he wants to make...
Mar 13, 2023 Stephen Waguespack
First Lady visiting Louisiana Cancer Research Center to promote Cancer Moonshot
First Lady Jill Biden is making her first trip to the Bayou State today and visiting the Louisiana Cancer Research Center in New Orleans. Her visit underscores Cancer Moonshot, the initiative to cut t...
Mar 10, 2023 Marc Nozell / CC
Another Republican jumps into the governor's race
Stephen Waguespack stepped down as the leader of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) on Thursday and launched his gubernatorial campaign, becoming the fifth major Republican to e...
Mar 09, 2023 Stephen Waguespack
DCFS hires more than 300 employees
The Department of Children and Family Services has hired 326 full-time workers since July, which increases their staff to 3,589. The agency has been under fire after several high-profile child death c...
Mar 09, 2023
BESE approves teacher raise pay and new funding formula
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approves a new funding formula for the 2023-2024 school year that would give $2,000 raises for certified teachers and $1,000 for non-certified...
Mar 09, 2023
Landry declares victory in California's alligator ban
Attorney General Jeff Landry said the state scored a huge victory Tuesday in federal court challenging California's ban on the importation and sale of alligator products. Landry said the ban could hav...
Mar 08, 2023 Judy Gallagher / CC
State lawmaker hoping Congress approves legislation to make daylight saving time year round in Louisiana
This weekend, Louisiana returns to daylight saving time something Haughton Representative Dodie Horton wishes was year-round. Horton passed a bill in 2020 that would make daylight saving time permanen...
Mar 08, 2023
U.S. Representative Garret Graves believes he can help the state more by staying in Congress
Baton Rogue Congressman Garret Graves says the Republican Party's slim majority in the U-S House of Representatives is a big reason why he decided not to run for governor. Graves, who was re-elected t...
Mar 08, 2023 Tammy Anthony Baker / CC
