When homeowners insurance rates started to soar and insurers began to flee coastal Alabama a decade ago, leaders there set out to try to “change the economics,” as a top
Louisiana is infamously the only state in the nation that requires licensing of florists. Hair braiders here, some who learned the craft at their grandmother’s knee, face a licensing regimen
For far too long, rural parishes in Acadiana have lacked the capacity to house juvenile offenders awaiting trial. They are often sent far from home, to other parishes or even
When the first Republican governor since Reconstruction took office in 1980, there were fewer than 10 Republicans in the Louisiana Legislature, out of 144 members.