Sunday Brunch

By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief

On this day in history in 1983, the U.S. military invaded the Caribbean island nation of Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury.

By Piper Hutchinson

Six years after a national sexual assault scandal roiled the state’s flagship university, Louisiana lawmakers question if the reporting system implemented in its wake provides enough information. Power-based violence reports, required since 2022, only give a partial picture of what survivor advocates say is a much bigger sexual violence problem on Louisiana campuses. 

By Julie O’Donoghue

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor was asked to investigate state nonprofit spending as part of Gov. Jeff Landry’s government efficiency initiative, LA DOGE, launched in December 2024. But the auditor initially told state lawmakers there was no easy way for the public to find all of the contracts state agencies have with nonprofits. His first report was issued the month.

By Elise Plunk

Two major coastal restoration projects got the final go-ahead to begin construction in Louisiana, together restoring up to 1,700 acres of coastal shoreline and wetland habitat at a total cost of $265 million.

Louisiana voters will consider 10 constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot, half of which would change the amount of property tax collected that fund police, parks and public schools.

Louisiana leaders will offer a man who’s been on death row nearly 30 years the option to die by lethal injection in response to his legal challenge of nitrogen gas executions, the method the state has used most recently.

Louisiana is one of five states that are finalists for a U.S. Department of Energy initiative to create nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses — developments that would encompass the refinement, use and recycling of nuclear fuel and disposal of waste. Until last week, the Landry administration has provided few details publicly beyond broad strokes on what such a campus in Louisiana might involve. 

As technology improves, e-scooters and e-bikes are blurring the lines between bicycles, scooters and motor vehicles. State and local regulations, many of which were originally written to manage the glut of low-speed rideshare scooters nearly a decade ago, haven’t kept pace, some experts say, and they’ve left city officials scrambling to do more.

Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but 10 states do not have any birth centers at all, and more could be built with certain state policy solutions and different models of care, a new report suggests.

For decades, manufactured home builders have been working to shed the old image of boxy trailer homes reserved for the outskirts of cities and suburbia. Now, a small change in federal regulations could open the door for architecture welcomed in more neighborhoods.

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