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Lawmakers on the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 6-2 to advance a bill that would gut much of Louisiana’s public records law. They also advanced a bill to require identification to request public records.
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Lawmakers on a Senate committee unanimously advanced a bill to remove gassing as an approved method of execution. Plus, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee began discussion of a bill calling for a constitutional convention.
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Karen Carter Peterson’s stunning resignation and guilty plea to federal wire fraud charges left an unexpected vacancy in her highly-coveted Senate district and set the stage for the most intriguing state legislative race of 2022.The contest quickly drew two of the biggest names from New Orleans’ Democratic party: state representatives Mandie Landry and Royce Duplessis.
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Louisiana just lost a highly liberal, yet somewhat divisive, voice in the state Senate.
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When House Bill 61 went in front of the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee Tuesday morning, it proposed cleaning one of the four pennies of state…
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Ed Haslam, author of Dr. Mary's Monkey joins Jim for the better part of today's show to discuss his book. The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer…
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“It it’s not broken, let’s don’t try to fix it,” Senator Francis Thompson of Delhi summed up the sentiment of a majority of the Senate regarding TOPS.TOPS…
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With less than a month left in the session, the full Senate spent most of Tuesday afternoon digging through a mountain of House bills awaiting final…