Closed party primary bill moves rapidly in special session
The bill would switch Louisiana to a closed system in which candidates of the same party face off in their own partisan primary election.
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Wesley Muller
Wes Muller is a reporter for the Louisiana Illuminator.
Louisiana Legislature overturns veto of ban on transgender youth health care
The legislation, which was vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, is likely to be the subject of a lawsuit.
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Grants to fortify homes may miss poor households
With few eligibility requirements, the program is first-come, first-serve. Critics say the grants should prioritize need.
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‘Fortify Homes’ grants seek to lower insurance costs for Louisiana property owners
The Louisiana Fortify Homes Program will offer grants of up to $10,000 for eligible homeowners to retrofit their roofs.
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House advances program to address Louisiana insurance crisis
The program would offer grants to certain insurance companies that underwrite new homeowner policies in the state.
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Few surprises in Louisiana on Election Day
More than 1.3 million residents voted Tuesday, reelecting the state’s Republican-heavy congressional delegation.
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High fuel prices won’t bring jobs to Louisiana because oil companies won’t drill, expert says
The energy sector, in Louisiana and the world at large, is still recovering from the decline in demand from the coronavirus pandemic combined with supply collusion from foreign oil suppliers
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Louisiana Supreme Court hears oral arguments over Ochsner vaccine mandate
Supreme Court Justice: Do Ochsner employees ‘not have a choice’ to work elsewhere?
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Housing shortage is ‘single greatest concern’ in Louisiana, governor says
The state is not only recovering from Hurricane Ida, but also from the damaging winter storm and spring flooding that occurred earlier this year and the devastation of Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta.
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UL studies solar farming, despite pushback to renewable energy Louisiana expected to lose out on renewable energy job boom
Just over a mile northwest of the Cajundome is a 5-acre plot of land flanked by neighborhoods of single-family homes and a commercial area to the north — not the type of zone one would normally expect to see a power plant — yet there one is, silently generating enough electricity to run 250 homes without a hint of pollution, waste or human traffic. It is UL Lafayette’s solar farm.
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House committee votes to let industries audit themselves
The bill had already been approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. The Governmental Affairs Committee held a separate hearing to consider its effect on Louisiana’s Public Records Law.
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Lafayette police used cybersurveillance on activists, nonprofits before strangely warning of ‘terrorism’
Among the events listed “no action warranted” are the two fake Antifa “rallies” that attracted large police responses.
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