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While campaign songs may be “so last century”, many of the same issues that prompted Huey Long to pen “Every Man a King” still plague Louisiana more than…
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WRKF’s first annual Founders’ Luncheon featured political strategist James Carville.“Every white Democrat in south Baton Rouge is here – all 30 of you,”…
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The House Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill that would keep highway dollars committed to road work by limiting how much can be shifted to State…
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The first week of the 2015 state legislative session is in the books.The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana recently put out a guide to the…
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Bobby Jindal addresses the Louisiana legislature one last time as governor, kicking off the 2015 legislative session.It’s a fiscal session, so lawmakers…
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The Louisiana survey takes the pulse of the people every year about major policy issues facing the state. LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab has been…
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The $1.6-billion state budget deficit is going to be a major factor in the in the gubernatorial election this fall. All four announced candidates for…
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Skies may actually be clear over Baton Rouge today, but gloom hangs over the state capitol, as the Revenue Estimating Conference downgraded Louisiana’s…
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Melinda Deslatte, capitol correspondent for the Associated Press, sums up 2014, or at least the year in Louisiana politics.
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It has not been a terrific few weeks for state finances.Oil revenues dropped. And then a $180 million hole appeared in the state budget.Melinda Deslatte,…