Finding 'Forever'

By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief

Let’s get your Tuesday started.

By Wes Muller

Lab results show extensive contamination at the Smitty’s Supply Inc. site in Tangipahoa Parish, documenting at least 24 different per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. They are called “forever chemicals” because of their ability to persist in the environment for decades without degrading. 

By Piper Hutchinson

A Louisiana state representative has withdrawn his bill to allow guns on college campuses, killing the proposal for the year. House Bill 99 by Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, would have allowed anyone 18 or older to carry a firearm on public or private college and university campuses. 

By Sofia Resnick

Republican lawmakers in several states so far this year introduced bills that would legally treat abortion as homicide. The proposed laws could have implications not just for pregnancy termination but for certain fertility treatments or even some forms of contraception. Despite broad unpopularity, even within the mainstream anti-abortion movement, the measures continue to be introduced and debated in statehouses, concerning abortion-rights advocates.

By Jonathan Shorman

Justices heard arguments on whether federal law overrides a Mississippi law that requires mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted as long as they arrive within five business days of the election. Fourteen states have similar laws, which extend a “grace period” to ballots that arrive through the mail after polls close.

By Greg LaRose

Dear Louisiana Republicans,

Please tell me you’re much smarter than our U.S. Senate candidates think you are. 

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