Category Archives: Politics & Government

The Southern Shrimp Alliance is applauding President Trump's imposing of tariffs on imported shrimp. Leann Bosarge, a board member at the Southern Shrimp Alliance, says she hopes the tariffs will prov...

With the defeat of Amendment 2 at the ballot box, the question now becomes - what will become of teacher pay? The amendment would have converted stipends of $2,000 dollars for teachers and $1,000 doll...

Parents can now see how taxpayer dollars are being spent on public education. State Treasurer John Fleming and Baton Rouge Senator Rick Edmonds unveiled the Louisiana K-12 School Transparency Project ...

Governor Landry has ordered a temporary hiring freeze for the executive branch of state government. In a statement, Landry's office says the goal is to save $20 million dollars in the general fund. In...

Construction is underway in Lincoln Parish on a 9-mile stretch of I-20. Erin Buchanan with DOTD says crews will be replacing the asphalt. "We'll be providing some repairs to the base of the roadway at...

Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have funded permanent teacher pay raises, leaving the future of educator salaries uncertain. Amendment 2 aimed to convert last year's te...

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 relati...

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 cons...

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 meas...

Louisiana voters rejected all four Constitutional amendments on Saturday's ballot. It's a political defeat for Governor Jeff Landry, who pushed for Amendment 2, telling voters it would make the state ...