By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
It’s fitting that we begin with a seafood story on a Lenten Friday.
Shrimp boats are docked along Bayou Dulac on Nov. 4, 2024. (Wes Muller/LAI)
By Wes Muller
State lawmakers have advanced a variety of new proposals to continue Louisiana’s crackdown on the mislabeling and misrepresentation of imported seafood. A Louisiana House committee approved two bills that would give more power to the state to investigate and seize unlawful seafood from wholesalers, retailers and restaurants.
A plane prepares to land at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. (Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)
By Julie O’Donoghue
Louisiana lawmakers would be able to accept a wider range of international travel paid for by outside groups without having to disclose those trips publicly under new legislation. It would allow nonprofits, political organizations, foreign governments and others to cover state legislators’ costs to travel abroad.
Max Gruver, right, and his mother, Rae Ann Gruver, embrace. Max died in 2017 after a hazing ritual inside the Phi Delta Theta house at LSU. (Photo courtesy of Rae Ann Gruver)
By Piper Hutchinson
State lawmakers have advanced a bill to make it easier for Louisiana colleges and universities to punish individuals and organizations that engage in hazing that ends with death or serious harm. It would clear up a law approved in 2024 that requires schools to abide by a higher standard of evidence in certain student discipline cases.
By Anna Claire Vollers
Thousands of protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” movement opposing President Donald Trump’s administration. As the weekend promises massive crowds and spectacle across the nation, political observers and protesters alike wonder whether the demonstrations signal a coming wave of change at the polls, or whether momentum will fizzle after the crowds go home.
By Shauneen Miranda
College sports continues to grapple with gender inequity in name, image and likeness deals, a patchwork of state NIL laws, booster collectives and the NCAA’s controversial transfer portal, among other issues. The fierce debate over whether college athletes should be considered employees took center stage at a U.S. Senate committee hearing, drawing mixed attitudes from senators, experts, leaders and athletes.
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