Molly Ryan
State Politics ReporterMolly Ryan is a political reporter and covers state politics from the Louisiana Capitol.
She graduated in May 2023 from LSU with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and covered the state Legislature for the LSU Manship School News Service. Additionally, Molly has worked as a reporter, web director, copy editor and anchor for LSU Tiger TV, the university’s student-run broadcast news station.
Molly is originally from Brandon, Mississippi. She enjoys running and watching football (specifically the Buffalo Bills). You can reach her at molly@wrkf.org.
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Louisiana might pass a law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom. It's a move a few other states have considered after a court decision about religion.
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Lawmakers on the House Criminal Justice Committee voted 8-3 against a bill that would have removed nitrogen hypoxia, or gassing, as an execution method in Louisiana. -
Lawmakers in the Senate passed a bill aimed at protecting access to in vitro fertilization in a near unanimous vote. They also gave final approval to a bill banning ranked-choice voting. -
Early childhood education advocates are asking state Senators to backfill a $24 million cut to early childhood education that was made under the House budget. -
A bill requiring all public school classrooms in Louisiana to display the Ten Commandments is likely to become law after lawmakers in the Senate voted 30-8 to approve the bill. -
A bill that prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity heads next to the Senate floor. -
A bill that would give the governor more control over appointments to the state Board of Ethics and a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization narrowly advanced from legislative committees. -
A bill moving through the Legislature would give survivors three more years to file lawsuits for child sex abuse claims that happened outside the state’s statute of limitations. -
Louisiana’s Revenue Estimating Conference increased the state general fund forecast for this year by $197 million. But lawmakers can only spend less than half of that without voting to bust the state’s spending cap.
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Gov. Jeff Landry and several state lawmakers visited the U.S. southern border in Texas this week, where Louisiana National Guard troops were deployed to help stop immigrants from entering the country illegally. Landry says the initiative has been a success.
