Sunday Brunch

By Julie O’Donoghue | Senior Reporter

On this day in history in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which provides protections to individuals with physical and mental disabilities, was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

By Piper Hutchinson

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said there will be fallout for New Orleans officials following now-rescinded criminal charges against Murrill. 

By Greg LaRose

Fields, 63, would lengthen an already extensive career in politics should he secure his old state Senate seat. He has served three previous stints in the chamber, with the first spanning from 1988-93.

By Julie O’Donoghue

With less than a month to go until classes begin, state officials have updated the plan to cut state funding to public schools in order to fund teacher pay stipends this year. School districts who give teachers locally funded pay increases this year can now use them to offset state funding cuts they were supposed to receive.

Misoprostol is the second medication in a two-pill procedure that millions of people have used to have medical abortions. Because of that use, Louisiana lawmakers has limited access to misoprostol and classified it as a controlled substance, a category typically reserved for addictive drugs.

Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta has quietly taken a new job with the Trump administration, one that he says he’ll hold while completing his final term as a state regulator. 

Verite reports the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office has repeatedly denied requests for public records from Innocence & Justice Louisiana, a nonprofit, pro bono law firm that has helped free dozens of wrongfully convicted prisoners.

The number of cases of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection linked to contaminated water or food that causes severe intestinal issues — more than doubled to over 4,173 cases across 41 states last week, up from the 1,645 confirmed cases in 34 states reported last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

One day after President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. service members killed as a result of the Iran conflict, the two chambers of Congress were at odds over whether to rein in the president’s military powers in the monthslong war.

Advocates and public health experts urged Republicans in Congress on Wednesday to implement a two-year delay on requiring states to begin sharing the costs for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. 

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