Regular readers may remember our previous article on the Port of Iberia director Craig Romero dabbling in politics. According to their 2022 audit, Director Craig Romero was compensated $202,450 last year to exclusively run day-to-day operations at the Port of Iberia....
Newspaper headlines and articles across the state are criticizing the Republican controlled legislature as it went on the biggest spending spree in Louisiana history. Our legislature was not legally entitled to spend every dollar of the enormous surplus. In Louisiana,...
The legislative session ended on Monday, June 6th and despite the many opportunities to pass legislation that would protect Louisiana from special interests and government overreach, the legislature failed miserably. Of the fifty plus bills we had on our watch list at...
The question has been asked, should a person or their family be able to directly benefit from their status as a legislator? In our experience it’s been quite common to hear about spouses of lawmakers who are lobbyists, or at least employed by a business...
In Louisiana, the movement [to remove or reshelve sexually explicit books] started in Lafayette in 2021 when ... the conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana filed an objection.
Lafayette Parish Councilman
John Guilbeau
The success we're seeing in Lafayette Parish would not be possible without vital organizations like Citizens for a New Louisiana.