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Last 50 Posts

• Sen. John Kennedy, the authority on state fiscal matters, also apparently is an authority on federal investigations

• Cedric Richmond only member of Louisiana’s congressional delegation wise enough to vote against Dodd-Frank rollback

• Jindal WSJ op-eds reminiscent of kid who keeps pestering mom for candy in the grocery store: he just won’t shut up

• 20 LDOE unclassified employees rake in huge pay increases totaling $534,600 over 5 years, an average of $26,730 each

• Don’t listen to what they say; listen to what they don’t say

• LDOE makes $17 million boo-boo in MFP and not one legislator has any questions about $3.7 billion budget

• Sen. J.P. Morrell appears to get it: Legislature needs to read Matthew 7:3 (or Luke 6:42), forget Harrah’s, address budget

• There was a time when Robert E. Lee statute in New Orleans offended for different reason: when under ‘reconstruction’

• Nursing home patients in danger of eviction? Don’t believe it. Campaign donations will keep doors open, beds occupied

• Louisiana Legislature gives Payday Loan companies what they want but due process for physicians? Fuggetaboutit

• Mishaps by ‘cream of the crop, vetted and trained’ personnel illustrate the insanity of school ‘concealed carry’ legislation

• Greed is the name of the game as Senate payday loan bill would double interest rates: follow the campaign dollars

• Former State Trooper charged with 74 felony counts holds Dequincy Police Dept. commission—but he really can sing

• House, unable to agree on a sane budget for the state, agrees that concealed permit holders be able to enter schools armed

• Only a few hours left; please help our fundraiser

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• Former Troop D trooper Jimmy Rogers, subject of several LouisianaVoice stories, among four state troopers arrested

• LV April fundraiser in final three days: Please contribute

• Got a subpoena and don’t want to go to court? Get yourself elected to the legislature and ignore the judge’s invitation

• Jennings vies for title of Most Beautiful while Jeff Davis 8 murders go unsolved, drug dealing flourishes; Chief leaves

• State attorneys among those solicited on work emails to contribute to appeal court judge’s election campaign fund

• LouisianaVoice April fundraiser ends soon: Please donate

• HB 727 to criminalize Bayou Bridge protests supported by ALEC, contributions from companies connected to project

• Former Louisiana politician Jim Brown reminds us the FBI is a deeply-flawed federal agency run by ambitious bureaucrats

• Fundraiser in home stretch: please support our reporting

• Iberia Sheriff’s Office says computer hacked and records ‘unavailable,’ but subpoena might make them reappear

• Those teacher uprisings that started in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky are headed toward Louisiana

• State attorney Stephen Russo exchanges flurry of emails in private legal work on behalf of LDH Secretary Rebekah Gee

• We’re halfway through our April fundraiser: please help

• How you gonna float a riverboat casino on the Tangipahoa River? Two bills trying to do just that

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• First Circuit gives go-ahead on lawsuit over 4th JDC clerk’s actions that LA OIG Stephen Street punted on two years ago

• State Ethics Board drops the ball in clearing state troopers in San Diego trip: clears way for appeal of disciplinary actions

• LouisianaVoice April fundraiser continues: please contribute

• Iberia’s Louis Ackal and Terrebonne’s Jerry Larpenter have much in common: titles of sheriff, methods of intimidation

• Iberia Parish Sheriff Ackal settles two lawsuits in March but local paper, The Daily Iberian, apparently missed the stories

• Please help LouisianaVoice: donate to our fundraiser

• Senate Bill 286 attempts to rein in dictatorial actions of State Board of Medical Examiners, runaway investigators

• LouisianaVoice’s April fundraiser continues: please help

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• Are those silver and gold decals being offered to LSTA donors subtle messages that driver is not to get a ticket?

• Bill to allow LDH physician to circumvent state ethics conflict of interests statute set for House debate today

• LouisianaVoice April fundraiser underway: please help

• HB 4118 replicates ‘Bama law by cutting expenditures for prisoner, university student food as cost-cutting measure

• Ever wonder why legislature can’t fix state’s fiscal problems? Take a look at corporate campaign contributions for answer

• Six Senate committee members toe the nursing home industry line in voting down home health care measure

• HB 218 on way to passage, giving highly-paid sheriffs more, even in poverty-stricken parishes: check what yours makes

• Three Billboards Outside Farmerville: Attorney General Jeff Landry can’t get indictment on jailhouse rape of 17-year-old

• You can’t have it both ways: if you support the Bill of Rights, First Amendment must stand equal in importance to Second

• Any cut to TOPS could adversely impact investors’ student housing projects, local economy, curtail school enrollment