by Michael Lunsford | Jun 13, 2025 | Legislature, Louisiana, Podcast, School Choice, Sunshine
Podcast: Play in new window | Download💸💸💸 Count along with me as we look through some (just some) of the ridiculous, frivolous spending contained in a single Senate committee amendment to Louisiana’s state budget. It adds up to $106 million, and that’s not...
by Michael Lunsford | Jun 4, 2025 | DOGE, Louisiana, Sunshine
As Iago quipped in Disney’s Aladdin, “Oh, there’s a big surprise! That’s so incredible, I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise!” That’s exactly how we felt, cracking open the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s latest report on the Louisiana...
by Michael Lunsford | May 30, 2025 | Libraries, Louisiana
Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a landmark ruling in Little v. Llano County, one that might finally stop the barrage of frivolous lawsuits masquerading as First Amendment crusades. The court reversed an earlier, deeply flawed panel decision in a...
by Editorial Staff | May 22, 2025 | Lafayette, LCG, Libraries, Louisiana
Late last month, Lafayette City-Parish President Monique Boulet shocked many by reviving the Robert Judge plan to build the long-delayed Northeast Regional Library at the originally proposed site. That site, the historic Holy Rosary campus, had previously been ruled...
by Editorial Staff | May 19, 2025 | Legislature, Louisiana
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...
by Editorial Staff | May 15, 2025 | Legislature
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”...