By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to a brisk start to the workweek, Louisiana. Let’s get you well informed.
Gov. Jeff Landry has directed Louisiana public schools to begin posting Ten Commandments displays in all classrooms after a federal appellate court last month removed an injunction that stopped a 2024 law requiring the displays from being enforced. (Michael Smith/Getty Images)
By Marta Jewson
Louisiana school district leaders are grappling with how and when they will be required to display the Ten Commandments after a court order preventing a 2024 law from taking effect was vacated last month. It cleared the way for the displays to be installed in every public school classroom, from kindergarten through college.
A hearing in the Louisiana case that could decide future telehealth access to abortion medication took place at the John M. Shaw U.S. Courthouse in Lafayette in late February. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Kelcie Morris-Moseley
Whether in court briefings or before state policymakers, plenty of talking points about abortion medication are repeated that are not based on scientific fact or evidence, according to experts. Here are some of the most common:
Voters trickle into a downtown Baton Rouge precinct Saturday, Oct. 13, 2023, for the statewide primary election. (Jonathan Peterson/LAI)
By Greg LaRose
A proposal to remove state school board elections from Louisiana’s closed party primaries has advanced in the Louisiana Legislature, just weeks ahead of the first races to use the new system. It would move next year’s elections for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education into the open “jungle” primary with the races for governor, attorney general and the legislature.
By Madhri Yehiya, Verite
Multinational agriculture technology company Syngenta will cease global production of the herbicide paraquat by the end of June, including at its facility in Iberville Parish. The decision comes as the company faces thousands of lawsuits for failing to inform users of paraquat’s many health risks.
By Shauneen Miranda
President Donald Trump’s administration has so far approved waivers in 22 states — part of its Make America Healthy Again agenda — that restrict which items recipients of the federal food assistance program that helps 42 million people can buy with their benefits. The restrictions, which range from candy to sugar-sweetened beverages and other processed foods, differ throughout states.
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