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PLUS: Follow the lawsuits

Wesley Muller
Wesley Muller

May 6, 2026

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By Wes Muller | Reporter

“Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our voters.” – Gov. Jeff Landry, in a statement after issuing an emergency order last week to suspend the May 16 congressional primary elections.

The Sewerage & Water Board plant in New Orleans, pictured Aug. 18, 2022. (Greg LaRose/LAI)

The best and worst of Louisiana’s ‘water report card’ grades

By Elise Plunk

The Louisiana Department of Health released its annual drinking water report card this week with letter grades assigned to the public water systems it monitors statewide. Find out if your water quality passed or failed.

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Members of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the House and Senate Democratic caucuses pose for photos during a news conference Monday at Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge. Black lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Jeff Landry to negate his emergency order that suspended the May 16 primary elections for the state’s U.S. House of Representatives seats. (Photo by Piper Hutchinson/LAI)

Follow the legal challenges to Louisiana suspending its US House primaries

By Piper Hutchinson

Since Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to suspend primaries for the state’s U.S. House races, multiple legal challenges have been filed in state in federal court to resume the elections. We’ve summarized the cases so you can follow their status through the courts.

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Iconic landmarks, federal buildings in DC increasingly show fealty to Trump

By David Lightman

The Trump reminders are all over. Walk the tourist walk from the Capitol down and around Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House and on to the Lincoln Memorial and it’s clear who’s in charge.

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When the helpers ‘feel helpless’: First responders get a boost in mental health support

By Amanda Watford

Across the country, state and local officials are increasingly looking for ways to expand mental health resources and testing new approaches aimed at reducing stigma and improving access to care for 911 dispatchers, police officers, firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

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COMMENTARY

Louisiana Legislature takes aim at New Orleans’ criminal justice system

By John Pfaff

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing a slate of bills through the state legislature framed as “rightsizing” the state’s judicial system. But they are hard to see as anything more than an effort to punish the majority-Black, majority-Democratic New Orleans voters for making decisions state officials dislike

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NEWS FROM THE STATES
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