Baton Rouge Archives

It’s time for transparency in Baton Rouge

by Michael Lunsford | Jan 13, 2024 | Baton Rouge, Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine

Louisiana Conservatives are dealing with a shock announcement dropped late Friday evening. After riding to power on the largest Conservative mandate issued in our lifetimes, Republican House and Senate leaders decided to issue some committee chairmanships to...

Unpopular: Louisiana Carbon Capture Task Force deciding your fate?

by Jamie Pope | Dec 13, 2023 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mark your calendars for December 18, 2023! It is time for another Task Force on Local Impacts of Carbon Capture and Sequestration meeting. As citizens mobilize to stop these projects in places like Lake Maurepas, they have questions about the makeup of this task...

Update: Citizens Concerned About Carbon Capture

by Jamie Pope | Dec 1, 2023 | Baton Rouge, Legislature, Livingston

I recently attended a Task Force on Local Impacts of Carbon Capture and Sequestration meeting. The meeting was set for the purpose of collecting information. I went in thinking I could provide an update. Unfortunately the only update is that citizens affected by these...

Berken and Knezek in BESE 7

by Michael Lunsford | Nov 14, 2023 | Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Louisiana

This is it. I’m not taking any more phone calls from people telling me that Kevin Berken is a “convicted federal criminal.” If there’s one thing that’s on the very top of my most hated list, it’s the intense hyperbole that...

Override Edwards to protect our kids

by Jamie Pope | Jul 8, 2023 | Baton Rouge, Legislature

Your rights and the safety of your children are less important than pandering to pride extremists. This is the message sent by our governor’s vetoes. John Bel Edwards vetoed medical freedom, protecting children, restorative justice, and much more. It is the duty...

If We Don’t Meet Your Standards, Lower Your Standards

by Jamie Pope | Nov 15, 2022 | Baton Rouge, Education, Legislature

Louisiana is last in nearly everything good. Education is no exception. Our children deserve the best education we can provide. Why is The Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) against high standards? Their own strategic plan says...