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Louisiana’s tough-on-crime policies stand to cost taxpayers millions more for years to come
The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies…
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7mSign ups for free transit program for New Orleans youth ends this week due to funding cut
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority riders born 2001-2010 have until Aug. 14 to get free passes as the pilot program ends open enrollment. After a $1 million funding cut, the Opportunity Pass program is expected to end if new funding is not secured.
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11mFrank Perez, founder of LGBT+ Archives Project, was a pillar of the queer community in New Orleans
Frank Perez, who helped catalog the history of queer communities throughout Louisiana, died after a bout with cancer at 57.
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3mWilliam G. Brown, Louisiana's first black state education superintendent, helped reform a failing system
Brown exposed problems with how Louisiana's public school system operated, then called for reform
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8mTrump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
$18 billion project could damage 470 acres of wetlands in a parish already losing land at a rapid pace
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7mLouisiana among states losing the most film industry jobs in the country
Louisiana ranked fourth in total job loss in the film and television industry from 2024 to 2025.