Louisiana Voice

LouisianaVoice is in its October fund drive and your support is vital to our continuing to bring you stories like the one below about the LSU Board of Supervisors in particular and the threat to higher education in Louisiana in general.

With Gov. Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Legislature making public records ever more difficult to obtain, however, our work will become more challenging. But LouisianaVoice is determined to continue its fight to make government and public officials accountable.

Whether is profiteering from privatizing prisons and other government services, furtive efforts to feather the nest of state employees in retirement, using campaign funds for personal purposes, efforts to destroy the careers of honest men and women or it’s about sheriffs and police who bend the law to their wills, LouisianaVoice has been there for you for nearly 14 years.

This is what we do. We attempt to shine lights into the darkest recesses of state and local government to let you know what your elected officials are up to. They’re not too fond of us but you have a right to know what they’re doing.

If you like what LouisianaVoice does, we invite you to support us. There is no subscription fee for LouisianaVoice because I want our information to be available to everyone. We don’t accept advertising because I don’t want anyone to think they can buy us. So, the only financial support we receive is from your generous contributions – and we come with hat in hand only twice a year – in October and April.

For this month’s drive, the most generous donor will receive an original copy of Huey Long’s autobiography Every Man A King, published in 1933 by the now defunct National Book Co. of New Orleans. It’s a collector’s item valued at $100. Leo Honeycutt’s biography of Edwin Edwards will be awarded on a lottery basis with everyone who contributes $100 or more eligible for the drawing. The book is signed by both Honeycutt and Edwards.

Finally, a signed copy of my latest book, The Mission, will go to everyone who gives $50 or more. Because of the book’s ending, it should be explained in advance that it was originally written in 2018 as an e-book, long before recent events, but its ending reads like current news.

You may send a check to 107 North College Street West, Denham Springs, LA 70726 or you may contribute by credit card by clicking on the YELLOW BUTTON to the right of this post and following directions. Whichever method you choose, please know that I deeply appreciate your support.