Louisiana’s fast-tracked approvals for more gas plants, with their secret terms and unenforceable guarantees, seem sure to bring more grid instability and financial uncertainty for Louisiana customers.
On Wednesday morning, a Senate committee will vote on the Louisiana State Voting Rights Act, which lays the foundation for preserving the integrity of our democracy.
You can save a few dollars on your bill now, avoid outages, and help the grid stay stable, so that Entergy doesn’t need to build a costly new power plant – and charge it to your future bills.
For federal officials, who have described people killed by ICE as “domestic terrorists,” the recent convictions in Louisiana’s neighboring state are a success — and a model to follow to stifle future opposition to ICE.
Of all the children taken from their families in Louisiana in 2024, 93% did not allege sexual abuse or physical abuse. Far more common are cases in which family poverty is confused with “neglect.”
Jessie represents everything that is wrong with Louisiana’s death-penalty system, which costs taxpayers roughly $15 million a year and has shockingly little reliability in its convictions, due to an 80% reversal rate.
Hypertension, often called the silent killer, continues to disproportionately impact Black Americans and contributes to higher rates of stroke, heart disease and premature death.
The Trump administration pushed lease sales through without environmental review. This is illegal because it violates several of the country’s bedrock environmental laws, writes Mathews, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups that has sued the administration.
The state of Louisiana is building a long-needed door for women leaving prison. But for girls leaving childhood detention, there is no threshold, much less a door.
