By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
It looks like state lawmakers could work into the weekend in order to finish business before Monday’s mandated end of the legislative session.
A state trooper and Capitol Security Director Terry Alario escort a woman who would only identify herself as Ms. Pat from the Louisiana House of Representatives after its members voted Thursday, May 28, 2026, to approve a congressional map that removes one of the state’s majority-Black seats in the U.S. House. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Piper Hutchinson
The Louisiana House of Representatives approved a congressional redistricting bill Thursday that increases Republican representation in Congress ahead of this year’s midterm election. Chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, Rep. Edmond Jordan, D-Baton Rouge, called voting for the bill a racist act, saying he felt like he is in an abusive relationship with his Republican colleagues in the House.
Lab technician Haleigh Glascock of the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory opens a specimen container with pieces of a deer’s brain stem and lymph nodes, prime places to search for the presence of chronic wasting disease. (Elise Plunk/LAI)
By Elise Plunk
Many states, including Louisiana, have adopted policies aimed at curbing chronic wasting disease in the deer population. But those efforts could soon be dialed back at the will of state legislators, worrying scientists who study the deadly disorder and its expansion.
Signs in the bowels of the Nebraska State Capitol advocate for legalization of marijuana. Aug. 2, 2024. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)
By Aaron Sanderford
The Republican attorneys general of Nebraska, Indiana and Louisiana have filed a lawsuit that challenges a U.S. Justice Department order reclassifying marijuana as a less harmful drug. They argue the Trump administration circumvented its regular rule-making process.
By Tristan Baurick, Verite
A bill aimed at making Louisiana more enticing to the wood pellet industry has sailed through the state legislature. The sector has come under fire for repeatedly breaking air pollution rules in Louisiana and Mississippi and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions in the United Kingdom, where most of the pellets are burned to produce energy marketed as “sustainable biomass.”
COMMENTARY
By Eric Johnson
Most Louisiana parents never have to think about what happens when measles or whooping cough shows up at school. That is not luck. It is the result of school vaccine protections that have worked quietly for decades
D.C. DIGEST
NEWS FROM THE STATES
Thanks for reading Morning Look. Did you know our weekend digest is also free? Sign up here. And if you enjoyed today’s edition, please forward to a friend. Increasing our readership helps us cover more news.