The Louisiana Freedom Caucus: What It is and Why I am a Member
by Chuck Owen, District 30, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Finding my place in Baton Rouge A few times in recent years, and in mailouts, I’ve mentioned being a member of the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. When I list who I am affiliated with in Baton...
Oklahoma Joins NewLouisiana Movement: Expanding Transparency Beyond Louisiana
In the spring of 2025, Louisiana citizens witnessed something revolutionary: a public, data-driven legislative dashboard that gave everyday people the same access to bill tracking, committee data, and vote analysis once reserved for insiders. First developed for the...
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...
Land of Roz: Mayor Roslyn White’s Emerald-City Power Trip
It’s October — the time of year when one of the major networks invariably airs the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. However, in Abbeville, Louisiana, the road to public utilities isn’t paved with yellow bricks. It’s lined with code violations. At the end of that...
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