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The House voted along party lines to approve the congressional map with one Democratic district on Thursday.
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Teachers and support staff will get another one-time stipend this year, according to Gov. Jeff Landry. But he hasn’t said where the money will come from.
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After voters rejected the constitutional amendment to combine education funds to help pay for permanent teacher pay raises, Gov. Jeff Landry made a social media post saying that if teachers do not get a pay raise, then no one in state government will get one.
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The map favors the re-election of a Democrat in District 2, which is currently occupied by Congressman Troy Carter.
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Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a Republican-backed map that would drop Louisiana to just one congressional district that favors Democrats.
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Republicans prevailed in a 4-3 party-line vote to approve Senate Bill 121, which keeps a single majority-Black district that stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
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The state’s official revenue forecast was lowered by more than $200 million across the next two budget years.
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The party breakdown for early voting is 44% Democratic, 41% Republican, and 15% no party.
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A full day of public testimony took place Friday, marred by several disruptions over new congressional maps during the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee meeting.
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The petition must collect 500,000 signatures from Louisiana's 2.5 million active registered voters in the next 180 days.
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WWNO’s Michael McEwen spoke with Samantha Pourciau, a senior staff attorney at the Promise of Justice Initiative, about the case.
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After hearing emotional testimony from the sibling of a child sexual abuse victim, the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee advanced legislation to make non-disclosure agreements involving child sexual abuse unenforceable.