Category Archives: Politics & Government
Second lawsuit filed against New Orleans city officials and contractors by plaintiffs involved in New Year's Day Bourbon Street Attack
A second lawsuit has been filed against New Orleans city officials and the contractors performing construction work in the French Quarter over the New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street that left 14 ...
Jan 30, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy grills Robert F Kennedy about an alleged link between vaccines and autism
Today was the second day of confirmation hearings for Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy. Kennedy appeared in front of the Senate Health Committee, chaired by Louisiana Senat...
Jan 30, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy is put to the test with RFK confirmation
Sen. Bill Cassidy faces intense pressure from Louisiana conservatives to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Trump's health secretary. Political Analyst Robert Hogan says Cassidy, a doctor and chair of t...
Jan 30, 2025 US Senator Bill Cassidy (R)
Senator John Kennedy says we have to cut spending substantially
Sen. John Kennedy emphasized the need for Congress to prioritize spending cuts while maintaining national defense, extending tax cuts, and tackling inflation. Speaking on the Senate floor, Kennedy war...
Jan 30, 2025
St. Tammany Parish Sheriffs make record-breaking fentanyl pill bust along U.S. Highway 11
A traffic stop led to the largest fentanyl pill seizure in the history of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. Lieutenant Suzanne Carboni says it started when they pulled over a Chevy Yukon SUV on...
Jan 29, 2025
Louisiana takes huge leap up the rankings in the latest Nation's Report Card
The Nation's Report Card for 2024 shows that Louisiana students are improving tremendously. In the overall ranking, which considers reading and math scores in 4th and 8th grades, Louisiana has moved f...
Jan 29, 2025 Gov. Landry celebrated Louisiana's surge up the state rankings in the Nation's Report Card for 2024 at Magnolia Woods Elementary School in Baton Rouge.
📷: Andrew Greenstein
Senator Bill Cassidy responds to President Trump calling to abolish FEMA
President Donald Trump proposed dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during visits to disaster-stricken areas in North Carolina and California. Senator Bill Cassidy says if you d...
Jan 29, 2025
Governor Landry putting pressure on Senator Cassidy to confirm Robert F Kennedy as U.S. Health Secretary
Governor Jeff Landry has called on the U.S. Senate, specifically Senator Bill Cassidy, to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Ser...
Jan 28, 2025 Hudson Institute / CC
Last quarter Senator Bill Cassidy raised $1 million for his re-election campaign increasing cash-on-hand to $5.8 million
Bill Cassidy's re-election campaign has announced Louisiana's Senior U-S Senator raised another one-million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2024 and now has more than six-point-five million dollars o...
Jan 24, 2025 US Senator Bill Cassidy (R)
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments over Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law
A three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this morning over the state's Ten Commandments law. The law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public ...
Jan 23, 2025 albund / Depositphotos.com
