The story below about how a State Trooper was deprived of a buyout incentive the state was offering for early retirement by a state police official who, never intending to retire, took advantage of the package but returned to work the following day at a promotion and with an additional $59,000 is typical of the work LouisianaVoice does in efforts to expose wrongdoing, malfeasance, and waste in state and local government.
We work very hard to check our sources, obtain public records, and show how underhanded and deceitful some of (certainly not all) our elected and appointed officials can be. We document everything possible to document before printing anything about public officials so that you, the citizens of Louisiana, may know how your tax dollars are being spent—and more often than not, wasted.
But our work isn’t free—or even cheap. We must pay for public records. There are times when we may pay hundreds of dollars for stacks of records that yield nothing. No story, no revelations, no earth-shattering exposé. But then sometimes we find that nugget hidden away amongst hundreds of pages of documents that reveal what someone didn’t want us to know.
That digging also takes hours upon of hours of review of public records.
And then there is the cost of driving to agency after agency, parishes as close as East Baton Rouge and as far away as Caddo as we run down leads. One such trip even took us to Jackson, Mississippi, to track down records about a Louisiana official—records that produced a major story.
LouisianaVoice does not accept advertising nor do we charge a subscription fee to our readership. That is why twice a year, we conduct a fundraising drive. It is the generosity of our readers that allows us to keep doing what we do.
You are certainly not obligated to contribute but if you like what we do and respect that we stand for honesty and integrity in all levels of government, in accountability to the citizens of Louisiana, and in knowing the story behind the stories, we humbly ask that you help us accomplish those goals.
Please click on the yellow “DONATE” button at the upper right hand side of this post and contribute what you can via credit card or send a check to:
LouisianaVoice
P.O. Box 922
Denham Springs, LA. 70727
Thank you.
Tom Aswell, publisher
I read on here somewhere that Louisiana Voice has about 3,000 followers so if you divide $20,000 by 3,000 that should equal out to about $66.00 per follower.
You couldn’t hire a good private investigator no where on the planet for less than that for all the info that Mr.Tom digs into and reports. That doesn’t even cover his time spent getting it all composed to be printed out for all of us to keep up with what is happening in Louisiana.
I think he deserves all of our gratitude, don’t you?
Better check the batteries in the calculator. It’s actually $6.67 per follower. 😀😀 So, for the price of a Whopper value meal, you can have ……….
Thanks Mr.Burns, my bad! I even had the machine plugged into the wall but still made a mistake.I should have had my glasses on but I hate them things because they didn’t come with windshield wipers. Sorry about that but I hope everyone gives to help Mr. Tom because he DESERVES all of our help. He certainly deserves more than a value meal that is for sure. He has certainly gone way out of his way to expose corruption and I don’t know anyone else who has done more than him to help the people no matter where they live.
Sorry Mr.Tom! Please forgive my stupidity.