By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
We welcome to the month of March, with the legislative session just one week away.
From left, Louisiana Public Service Commissioners Foster Campbell, Eric Skrmetta, Mike Francis, J.P. Coussan and Davante Lewis hold a meeting in Plaquemine on Aug. 22, 2025. (Wes Muller/LAI)
By Wes Muller
State utility regulators have rejected a request to investigate whether Meta’s decision to place its data center in Northeast Louisiana under new ownership could leave Entergy Louisiana customers footing the bill to power it. A recent Wall Street Journal report described the new data center ownership structure as “Frankenstein financing.”
Andrea Cedeño stands in her living room hugging her 5-month-old daughter after an interview in Kenner on Feb. 11, 2026. (Robert Stewart/Verite News)
By Robert Stewart
When the U.S. Border Patrol Operation Catahoula Crunch descended on Southeast Louisiana and Mississippi, a Kenner family’s American dream turned into a nightmare. Wilmer Guevara Brito was detained by Border Patrol — his wife was left to juggle a full time job, raise a teenage son and care for a newborn child alone.
LSU President Wade Rousse speaks to the media after the February 2025 Board of Supervisors meeting (Piper Hutchinson/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Piper Hutchinson
LSU President Wade Rousse said the university will comply with a state law that requires posting displays of the Ten Commandments in each classroom, but he is waiting for posters to be donated.
By Sofia Resnick
There is a content warning on page 7 of a friend-of-the-court brief recently submitted in Louisiana’s high-stakes abortion medication case by women who say they were injured or traumatized from taking the pills. “Warning: these accounts are raw, graphic and real.”
COMMENTARY
By Andrea Hagan
The Ten Commandments are not a casual ask. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt love thy neighbor. Yet many of the loudest voices for “right living” in this state are the same voices that have repeatedly and structurally failed to love their neighbor — and that failure has a very specific policy shape.
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