Today Baton Rouge Democratic Senator Cleo Fields announced he’s running for congress in the newly created 6th district which is a majority minority district. Republic Garrett Graves currently represents the 6th district and has said he will run for congress again this year. LA politics dot com publisher Jeremy Alford says if Graves is not elected, his days in politics is not over…
The new congressional map is expected to receive a legal challenge. St. Bernard Parish Representative Mike Bayham doesn’t see how the map is constitutional when a neighborhood in his own district is separated…
The map that stretches the 6th congressional district from parts of East Baton Rouge Parish to parts of Caddo Parish resembles one the courts struck down in the 90s.
Louisiana U-S Senator Bill Cassidy says the state will benefit immensely from investments in broadband through The Biden Administration’s Infrastructure bill, especially in northwest Louisiana…
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Cassidy says it will also help prepare students in the Bayou State for careers in computer science.
LSU quarterback and Heisman trophy winner Jayden Daniels was named the winner of the 2023 Manning Award today. The award goes to the top collegiate quarterback in the nation. Daniels led with nearly five-thousand yards of total offense.
Daniels is the third LSU honoree to receive the award.