By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
A contingent of Louisiana officials will be in Paris for the New Orleans Saints game Sunday, including Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill and Mayor Helena Moreno. The rest of us will keep things in place while you’re gone. Just bring back a win.
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By Julie O’Donoghue
It will take you a little more than 4 minutes to educate yourself on the five constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot that could change the amount of property taxes some people have to pay. Even if they don’t impact you, they could affect the amount of money that funds your local police department, libraries, parks and public schools.
Louisiana officials say they will agree to execute Todd Wessinger through lethal injection if he agrees to the use of pentobarbital. (Photo courtesy of Louisiana Office of Attorney General)
By Greg LaRose
Todd Wessinger was sentenced to death in 1997 for the murders of two of his former co-workers at a Baton Rouge restaurant two years earlier. His lawyers are fighting the state’s new state method for executions, nitrogen hypoxia, and have argued to a federal court that a better option exists. Louisiana leaders appear willing to give him that choice.
Louisiana utility regulators want to stop a $2 billion electric transmission project being built in the Midwest. It won’t cost a dime for Louisiana customers or impact their property or access to power.
So why did nearly all members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission join this fight? In this week’s episode of “The Light Switch,” we talk with an advocate for utility customers about this fight and how it could potentially impact if and when power lines we need here are eventually built.
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but some states do not have any birth centers at all, and more could be built with certain state policy solutions and different models of care, a new report suggests.
By Robbie Sequeira
For decades, manufactured home builders have been working to shed the old image of boxy trailer homes reserved for the outskirts of cities and suburbia. Now, a small change in federal regulations could open the door for architecture welcomed in more neighborhoods.
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