5th elements

By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief

“I don’t necessarily like these data centers, solar farms, things like that, that really don’t create, in the end, very many jobs,” – Austin Magee, a Republican candidate for Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District seat, from last night’s forum in Monroe. Read more in today’s top story.

By Julie O’Donoghue

Candidates running in the crowded 5th District field had the sharpest disagreements over artificial intelligence regulation and economic development at a forum held Tuesday night at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. Seven of the nine people on the Nov. 3 ballot participated in the event sponsored by Northeast Louisiana broadcasters, Monroe-area business groups and the university.

By Kelcie Moseley-Morris

As more polls and strategists indicate Democrats could take over congressional majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, some anti-abortion advocates fear such a change could be the most serious threat to a 50-year-old provision barring federal funding for abortions. 

By Sofia Resnick

More than half of women of reproductive age have seen or heard the false claim that hormones in contraceptives are harmful, and about 4 in 10 have been exposed to the false idea that hormones in contraceptives limit your ability to get pregnant in the future, according to a new survey.

By Kevin Hardy

The bipartisan National Governors Association for the first time in over a decade updated its internal principles on federalism — the system of power sharing between Washington, D.C., and the states.

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