By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Gov. Jeff Landry’s 54-minute address on the opening day of the legislative session previewed what are likely to be two contentious issues.
Gov. Jeff Landry addresses a joint session of the Louisiana Legislature on the opening day of their lawmaking session at the State Capitol on Monday, March 9, 2026. (John Ballance/The Advocate-Pool)
By Piper Hutchinson
Gov. Jeff Landry used his annual State of the State speech on the first day of the regular legislative session to pitch his agenda. In his sights this year are more state dollars for private school vouchers and workforce development programs, eliminating the state income tax, overhauling the Orleans Parish judiciary and creating a new, cheaper vehicle inspection sticker.
President Donald Trump introduces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House September 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Julia Goldberg
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not envision a career as a judge. Rather, the former law professor and mother of seven children was “really more thinking about how to balance a career as a lawyer and being kind of a two-career family and having young children in the house as well.”
An Iranian flag is planted in the rubble of a police station, damaged in airstrikes on March 3, 2026, in Tehran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray
Americans are paying more for gas as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran chokes off a significant route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s petroleum products. Global prices for Brent crude oil, the international standard, climbed over $100 a barrel. Prices were just above $70 a barrel in the days before the U.S. and Israel launched a surprise Feb. 28 attack on Iran.
By Bobbi-Jeanne Misick, Verite
As the number of people held inside immigration detention centers in the United States climbs to record highs under the Trump administration, so have the amount of federal court cases from immigrants claiming that their detention is unlawful.
COMMENTARY
By Andrea Hagan
Louisiana spends $150,000 per year to incarcerate a youth and $11,000 to educate one. A devilish cycle persists. Children denied support become adults who harm women denied protection in communities where the elderly are abandoned to the consequences.
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