By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
What’s interesting today is, that just a day before Louisiana chooses who advances in its U.S. Senate contest, the race is maybe the third or fourth biggest story at the moment.
Louisiana teachers could face a pay cut if voters don't approve Constitutional Amendment 3, which Gov. Jeff Landry backs, in the May 16 election. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Julie O’Donoghue
Anger over suspended elections and congressional map changes are fueling a campaign to vote down five constitutional amendments backed by Gov. Jeff Landry on Saturday’s election ballot. Republican leaders are warning public school teachers and staff will likely see a pay cut if Amendment 3, aimed at raising educators’ salaries permanently, fails to pass.
Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, left, questions Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, in the Louisiana Senate chamber on the congressional redistricting map Morris sponsored to eliminate one of Louisiana’s two majority-minority districts in the U.S. House. (Wes Muller/LAI)
By Piper Hutchinson
State Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, said his goal in drawing a map to eliminate one of Louisiana’s majority-Black districts in the U.S. House was to disregard race and instead focus on party. Morris said his map is designed to “maximize Republican advantage for the incumbent Republicans that we have in Congress.”
Calvin Duncan is sworn in as clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on April 21, 2026. (Christiana Botic/Verite News)
By Greg LaRose
The high court’s order was issued after the New Orleans City Council voted Monday to temporarily make retired Judge Calvin Johnson interim clerk and set a Nov. 3 election date to for voters to fill the position. Attorney General Liz Murrill has threatened to remove the city’s mayor and other officials who supported those moves, and he warned Johnson he could be jailed.
By Sofia Resnick and Kelcie Moseley-Morris
The U.S. Supreme Court decided to preserve telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on the merits of the high-stakes federal lawsuit Louisiana has filed against the Food and Drug Administration to end its remote prescription policy.
By Elise Plunk
Bonafide Louisiana residents will soon be allowed to hunt alligators for sport, but it won’t be the open-season, no-limits culling of the swamps people might imagine. We detail what it will cost you just to have a chance to get your gator.
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