As lawmakers in Louisiana gather to redraw the state’s electoral districts, one question looms above all else: In a state where one in three voters is Black, is it fair that only one of the six congressional seats represents a majority-minority district?
As lawmakers in Louisiana gather to redraw the state’s electoral districts, one question looms above all else: In a state where one in three voters is Black, is it fair that only one of the six congressional seats represents a majority-minority district?
Campaign fliers are in mailboxes, yard signs endorsing candidates are popping up on lawns and phone banks are dialing every 504 phone number they can: it's election time in New Orleans.
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Remember that temporary sales tax Louisiana s Republican Legislature passed and Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards signed in 2018 during the state s last budget crisis?
It could become permanent after the state Senate this week overwhelmingly approved an amendment on an unrelated bill to keep the 0.45-cent sales tax from rolling off the books as scheduled in 2025 in an effort to invest in Louisiana s crumbling infrastructure.
Republican Port Allen Sen. Rick Ward, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, added the amendment, called a hitchhiker, onto a House bill to tax smokable marijuana when it s added to the state s medical cannabis program.