Louisiana’s Economic Development Machine Taps Familiar Victim
In Louisiana, tourism is treated as an unquestioned good — a self-evident engine of prosperity. The pitch is familiar: billions in economic impact, hundreds of thousands of jobs created or supported, and tax revenues that supposedly pay for services without burdening...
AG Murrill: Move the Vulgar Kids Books
On February 6, 2026, Attorney General Liz Murrill issued Opinion 25-0069, resolving a question that has lingered in Louisiana’s library debate for years: what does “access” actually mean under La. R.S. 25:225? Anyone who remembers what happened to a parent in...
The Meeting Before the Storm: What LPSS Leadership Knew and When They Knew It
In mid-January 2025, as questions about construction spending quietly mounted inside the Lafayette Parish School System, the school board and senior administrators gathered for a two-day training more than an hour away from Lafayette. The meeting took place January...
Iberia Parish Can’t Account for $325,000 in Opioid Funds
When Iberia Parish agreed to accept opioid settlement funds, it didn’t just accept money. It accepted legal obligations. Those obligations are spelled out clearly — in parish resolutions, in the statewide opioid Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and in the...
Abbeville’s Reckoning: When Broken Promises Finally Come Due
For nearly five years, Abbeville’s leaders have tried to pretend this fight was about accounting or paperwork. It isn’t. It’s about whether a city that took tax money from its citizens and labor from its police officers can now escape the promises it made to both....
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
John Guilbeau
The success we're seeing in Lafayette Parish would not be possible without vital organizations like Citizens for a New Louisiana.
Times Picayune
Executive director of the ultra-conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana, Michael Lunsford, seized that opportunity
Los Angeles Times
Lunsford said [Citizens for a New Louisiana's] focus is to prevent libraries statewide from allowing children access to erotic or pornographic materials.
The Current
[A.B.] Rubin [blamed] conservative activist Michael Lunsford for the delay. Lunsford’s organization, Citizens for a New Louisiana, has stirred activism in library controversies across the state.
Acadiana Advocate
Citizens, whose executive director is ... Michael Lunsford, is a conservative "good government" operation that started in Lafayette and is expanding across the state. Its latest crusade is pushing for tighter controls on the books and other materials minors are allowed to access in public libraries.
