By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
Several candidates have pondered entering the field for Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District. That’s likely to change after the latest developments in the race.
Sen. Blake Miguez, R-New Iberia, sits in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 2024 legislative session. (Photo by Allison Allsop/LAI)
By Greg LaRose
Just a day after he joined the field, Blake Miguez received an endorsement from President Donald Trump in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District race. The president announced his backing for Miguez on social media Wednesday evening. Calling the Republican state lawmaker from New Iberia a “MAGA warrior.”
Flowers grow Dec. 15, 2022, in front of the University of New Orleans sign on Lakeshore Drive. (Matthew Perschall/LAI)
By Piper Hutchinson
LSU has signed a data-sharing agreement with the University of New Orleans that will allow students applying to the Baton Rouge flagship campus for the fall semester to be offered a spot at what is soon to become LSU New Orleans.
Bobby Wallace, who spent 22 years at Louisiana State Penitentiary, is among the plaintiffs in a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of having people incarcerated at the prison work on its farm. (Gus Bennett/The Lens)
By Bernard Smith, The Lens
A class action lawsuit is being heard this week before a federal judge in Baton Rouge over the compulsory field work that’s required for people held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Their case also argues that conditions on the Angola Farm Line can pose unnecessary health risks for the prison laborers.
By Anna Claire Vollers
Include enough information about the story to draw interest, but not so much that the reader no longer needs to click to read more. Sparse bolding could be used to draw the reader's eye through the section.
COMMENTARY
By Adam Ganucheau
Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
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