Pay raise push

By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief

Good Monday morning. Here’s what you need to know to start the week.

By Julie O’Donoghue

A proposal sponsored by Rep. John Illg, R-Harahan, would set the Louisiana governor’s salary to 35% of the average base pay for state university system presidents in the previous fiscal year. Illg said salaries for statewide elected officials haven’t been raised in 20 years. Some current office holders made more money in previous government jobs at the same agencies they now lead.

By Wes Muller

The Louisiana Legislature is considering a new law to prohibit anyone from suing oil and gas companies for any damages, injuries or deaths attributed to pollution-driven climate change. Scientists across the globe overwhelmingly agree fossil fuel emissions have caused significant planet warming in recent decades. 

By Andrea Hagan

Within a day of last week’s mass shooting at the Mall of Louisiana, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases. That is what a tale of two Baton Rouges looks like in practice — one where shoppers are shielded and reassured, and another where residents are policed but not protected.

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