Kenneth Boudreaux Has Turned Mardi Gras into a Political Circus
We just finished telling our families the same thing many of you probably did: “No politics at the Thanksgiving table.” Holidays are supposed to be breaks from the political circus rather than extensions of it. But apparently someone forgot to extend the usual holiday...
Opelousas ODDD Scandal Deepens With More Out-of-District Spending
Here they go again! Our last article revealed a stunning $5 million potential misappropriation inside the Opelousas Downtown Development District (ODDD). Since then, one question has hovered over the city: was this a one-time blunder or part of something bigger?...
Louisiana’s Infant Mortality Crisis The Advocate Got Wrong
We’ve all read The Advocate’s “sweeping exposé” declaring that Louisiana’s infant mortality crisis is “shocking,” “inhumane,” and “unacceptable.” According to the paper, our state has “one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the developed world —...
New Orleans Bailout? Not so fast!
The Times-Picayune called the New Orleans bailout approval a “major victory” for Mayor-elect Helena Moreno. But was it, really? The city admitted it can’t meet payroll and agreed to hand its checkbook to the state, all in an effort to avoid the stigma of being placed...
CAUGHT: Opelousas Officials Misappropriate $5 Million?
For months, Opelousas residents were told that the Opelousas Downtown Development District (ODDD) was funding a stadium project. What no one said — not the District, not the City, not the Parish, not even the bond attorneys — was the one fact that puts the entire...
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 Guardian (UK)
But within days her life had been upended because of two posts on social media... Citizens for a New Louisiana, a group whom Jones knew had worked to defund a library in nearby Lafayette.
Susie Labry
[Citizens for a New Louisiana’s] grading system is comprehensive and superior.
Amanda Jones
There have been no “outright book bans” in Louisiana. The challenges at recent Library Board meetings have been mostly about where certain books should be appropriately shelved.
American Library Association
The whole area is being controlled by a political group called Citizens for a New Louisiana.
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
