Unauthorized: Youngsville Police Chief JP Broussard Usurps City Council
When Youngsville Police Chief J.P. Broussard circulated an internal memorandum earlier this month naming a new Assistant Chief of Police, few inside city government seemed to know anything about it. Just months prior, the Mayor and members of the Council made it...
Lafayette Parish Schools: How “Renewals” Became Permanent Tax Increases
In October 2025, Lafayette Parish voters once again approved the renewal of an ad valorem tax funding the Lafayette Parish School System—8,478 voting yes, 3,988 voting no, with barely 8% of the electorate participating. The measure, described as a “continuation” of...
The Cleo Countdown: Louisiana’s Plan to Redraw
Today, the Louisiana Legislature convened for its fourth special session of the term, the first of 2025. With the Cleo District now awaiting a decisive ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, the state is bracing for a pivotal legal and electoral moment. If the high court...
Public Health Illusion: Louisiana Shrugs Off Billion-Dollar Medicaid Waste
In October 2025, Louisiana’s Legislative Auditor released a progress report that should have shaken the state’s health bureaucracy. Nothing registered on the Richter scale, but the findings should have. The report revealed that the Department of Health (LDH) had spent...
Citizens for a New Louisiana is making government more transparent, one parish at a time. Will you become a part of the solution?
Critical Acclaim
Danny Cherry, Jr.
[Library Director Michelle] Parrish’s firing left behind five library board members within the orbit of Citizens for a New Louisiana (CFNL), plus the Parish President...
Danny Cherry, Jr.
The movement... all across the nation to hijack and remake whole library systems, in order to purge their respective systems of objectionable material, is... by a group called Citizens for a New Louisiana.
The Acadiana Advocate
[Citizens for a New Louisiana] claimed Broussard city officials were violating state open meeting laws after the mayor [admitted] in a now-removed video that the city has several advisory committees... It is unclear where Citizens for a New Louisiana obtained the video.
National Public Radio
Citizens for a New Louisiana is keeping a close eye on how current library board members are voting. If that makes current members fearful, Lunsford says, that's the point.
Acadiana Advocate
Citizens, whose executive director is ... Michael Lunsford, is a conservative "good government" operation that started in Lafayette and is expanding across the state. Its latest crusade is pushing for tighter controls on the books and other materials minors are allowed to access in public libraries.
