As your Louisiana State Representative for District 14, I will continue to bring much-needed energy, focus and action to help our area achieve its full potential as an important region in our great state. We must secure funding and support to improve schools, train our workforce for tomorrow’...
Advises that members of Louisiana's House delegation appear to have reached a consensus on a new plan for the state's congressional districts, improving the likelihood that the state Legislature will meet in special session before the April 25, 1994 start of the regular session. But a spokesman...
The first map adopted by Republican state lawmakers in 2022 consisted of five majority-White congressional districts and one majority-Black district, though roughly one-third of the state's population is Black. The group of Black voters and civil rights groups challenged that plan's legality, argu...
The map, which was used in Louisiana’s November congressional election, has white majorities in five of six districts, all currently held by Republicans. This is despite Black people accounting for one-third of the state’s population. Another mostly Black district could deli...
On a 29-7 vote, senators approved House Bill 246 by Rep. Scott Simon, R-Abita Springs, dislodging the agate as the state's gemstone. Simon's bill names the agate as the state's official mineral. Simon's bill names the "cabochon-cut gemstone derived from the Crassostrea virginica mollu...
The justices had allowed the state’s challenged map to be used in last year’s elections while they considered the Alabama case. In Louisiana, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick struck down the map in June 2022 for violating the Voting Rights Act, saying “evidence of...
it adopted a map that lawmakers said satisfied the district court's ruling and also achieved certain political objectives. The plan protects certain "pivotal" Republican incumbents, according to GOP state senators, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep....
— louisiana ’s newest member of congress was admitted to a hospital for monitoring on saturday, one day after announcing that he had been diagnosed with covid-19. republican rep.-elect luke letlow was admitted as a precaution, spokesman andrew bautsch told the news-star. bautsch also ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is inviting people to join the new state poet laureate’s first public reading through two online venues.
The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.