Louisiana DOC could grant earlier release to terminally ill people
Louisiana lawmakers are considering a proposal to expand medical parole, allowing terminally ill inmates to be released up to 120 days before their expected deaths.
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Proposal would require Louisiana to send every voter’s personal info to Homeland Security
Feds would get Social Security number, address, birthdate of all registered voters
Despite scant plans and heated criticism, Louisiana Senate committee passes bills to overhaul New Orleans courts
Drastic legislative cuts would eliminate 11 judgeships and would defund the position of recently elected clerk Calvin Duncan.
How the Iran war is disrupting the world’s medicine supplies
The Persian Gulf is not just an energy chokepoint but “a critical pharmaceutical transit hub,” writes Healthbeat. Experts in supply-chain logistics predicteimpacts — like price increases and delays — could hit by mid- to late-April.
‘A muzzle on elected officials’: NDAs ‘cloak’ Louisiana’s biggest business developments
Meta triples order of gas-fired power plants for its AI campus in Louisiana
The seven additional new Entergy plants will power Meta’s mammoth AI site in Richland Parish, which is the size of 2.700 football fields.
Black elders without birth records could lose vote under SAVE America Act
Throughout the 1940s, home births were common—and not always formally recorded, leaving elderly Black America at risk of losing the ballot. In response to voting challenges, Louisiana advocates are trying to protect voting rights at the state level.
State lawmakers push to expand laws allowing guns on college campuses
“We can trust people with their rights,” says the sponsor of a campus-carry gun bill introduced in Louisiana, as debate simmers nationwide over self-defense versus a greater risk of gun violence.
ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many.
Though federal policy discourages the detention of pregnant women and other at-risk people, Homeland Security numbers show that many have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge over the past year.
Do the ‘climate-tech’ startups headed to old Navy base signal innovation—or a cover for Big Oil?
A startup hub planned for the old Navy Base boasts of green “deep tech”— but experts warn some of that tech only provides cover for polluters, while one was founded by an Israeli arms developer.
