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...
Beauregard Voters Reject Carbon Capture
As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary next year, it’s worth recalling the words of Thomas Paine. In 1776, his pamphlet Common Sense warned of a truth that remains as alive and relevant today as it was then: Government, even in its best state, is but a...
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
The (UK) Independent
Mr Lunsford’s appeal prompted the parish library director to move the [erotic] book[s] from teen nonfiction sections to adult nonfiction sections
USA Today
Michael Lunsford runs Citizens for a New Louisiana, a government watchdog nonprofit, ... who has called out Jones and other library leaders.
Los Angeles Review of Books
[Citizens for a New Louisiana is] Leading the charge in Louisiana’s library debate
Amanda Jones
They gave an ultimatum that if the board members didn’t vote the way he wanted, they would be dismissed from the library board. And guess what… they were all dismissed.
Alabama Reflector
Citizens for a New Louisiana seeks to restrict access to library materials deemed inappropriate for children.
