Carbon Capture Power Grab? Senate Bill 244 Reshapes Energy Oversight
While the public debate over carbon capture and property rights continues to heat up, a quiet legislative maneuver may have already tipped the scales. Senate Bill 244, authored by Senator Bob Hensgens, became a sprawling 219-page substitute bill that rewrites vast...
Jacob Landry’s Legacy Lawsuit Fix: Ending Decades of Legal Extortion
For years, Louisiana’s oil and gas industry has been under siege. It’s not from new regulations or environmental disasters, but from a wave of lawsuits over decades-old operations that were legal and routine when they occurred. These so-called “legacy lawsuits”...
Op-ed: Thank You, Lawmakers, for Advancing Legal Reform
by Richard D Cloud – Lafayette, LA As a Louisiana voter who has long supported meaningful legal reform, I want to extend my sincere thanks to the members of the Louisiana House of Representatives who took decisive action in the opening weeks of the Legislative...
The Segus Jolivette Act – Criminal Justice Reform BLOCKED
Just about everyone in the state is watching to see whether our state legislature can pull off tort reform or any meaningful action that would ultimately reduce insurance rates in the state. But this session is not dedicated to insurance, even if it feels like it....
We’re Changing Everything… AGAIN!
Too many bills, not enough time—that’s what we kept hearing. So we built a solution: Louisiana’s first real-time public dashboard for tracking state legislation — sortable, clickable, and constantly updated. It’s built for the public but powerful enough that lawmakers...
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
MS Magazine (Feminist)
I knew about Citizens for a New Louisiana because of what they doing in Lafayette Parish to stop Drag Story Hour.
Kim Powers
I can understand why someone would try to duplicate what they are doing at Citizens but alas, that's a trap. They make it look easy. It isn't.
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.
Kenneth Boudreaux
[Citizens for a New Louisiana's Michael Lunsford is] the most powerful Republican in Lafayette.
Times Picayune
Executive director of the ultra-conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana, Michael Lunsford, seized that opportunity
