New Year, New Louisiana

New Year, New Louisiana

The state [of Louisiana] can and MUST do better!” Those were the words penned by Citizens for a New Louisiana to the State of Louisiana – Office of Community Development in an e-mail exchange in December of 2022. Whether those words fall on deaf ears or become...
Local Government Likes it Dark

Local Government Likes it Dark

“The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of...
A vow to transparency?

A vow to transparency?

In an 1822 letter James Madison wrote: “A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors...

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