Louisiana Senate

Karen Carter Peterson’s stunning resignation and guilty plea to federal wire fraud charges left an unexpected vacancy in her highly-coveted Senate district and set the stage for the most intriguing state legislative race of 2022.The contest quickly drew two of the biggest names from New Orleans’ Democratic party: state representatives Mandie Landry and Royce Duplessis.

Louisiana just lost a highly liberal, yet somewhat divisive, voice in the state Senate.

When House Bill 61 went in front of the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee Tuesday morning, it proposed cleaning one of the four pennies of state…

Ed Haslam, author of Dr. Mary's Monkey joins Jim for the better part of today's show to discuss his book. The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer…

“It it’s not broken, let’s don’t try to fix it,” Senator Francis Thompson of Delhi summed up the sentiment of a majority of the Senate regarding TOPS.TOPS…

With less than a month left in the session, the full Senate spent most of Tuesday afternoon digging through a mountain of House bills awaiting final…