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The bill, which was originally intended to apply to all athletics in Louisiana, was amended on the House floor to exclude intramural sports.

An attorney for the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, a New Orleans-based watchdog nonprofit tasked with ensuring fair taxation and reform, said a proposed bill that was withdrawn from the Legislature could have decimated transparency and the public’s right to access public records.

Attorney Kelly Orians is leaving New Orleans next week to join the faculty at the University of Virginia’s School of Law.  Her departure will be a major loss for the community of formerly incarcerated individuals she has worked with so closely during the last seven years — an effort that increases public safety by reducing […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An effort to prohibit people who haven’t been vaccinated...

The House Governmental Affairs Committee rejects a Senate-approved bill that would prohibit state facilities f...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An effort to prohibit people who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 from being denied access to state buildings, public colleges and any facility funded by

Vax After Dark, pandemic poem, Amtrak’s back: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports © Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic Justin McCawley receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up site in the parking lot next to Antigone Books in Tucson, Ariz., on May 20, 2021. Alabama Montgomery: The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.6% last month, and a surge of hiring prompted by renewed business activity as the pandemic eases is driving up wages, labor of...

How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every state

Today Thunderstorms early, then mainly cloudy after midnight with light rain possible. Low 69F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Flooding possible in poor drainage areas.. Tonight Thunderstorms early, then mainly cloudy after midnight with light rain possible. Low 69F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Flooding possible in poor drainage areas. Updated: May 20, 2021 @ 11:10 pm

Rep Rodney Lyons (D) Harvey A bill to increase the unemployment weekly benefit by $28 beginning in 2022 fails in the House. The bill came under bipartisan assault especially after a hiring bonus was added. Bill author Harvey Democrat Representative Rodney Lyons said the original intent was to increase the weekly amount, an initiative that began before the pandemic. “As we do know that at $247 a week, we’re at the bottom as far as what we pay in unemployment benefits,” said Lyons. A hiring...