The Senate Governmental Affairs meeting dragged on for more than nine hours well into the early morning hours debating the state’s new congressional map, and the frustrations started to show as the meeting wore on. One woman couldn’t contain her anger after the committee voted down a map that would have preserved two solidly Democratic districts.
Cut 9 (16) “…in your district.”
Earlier, New Orleans Democrat Royce Duplessis took Republicans to task for making opponents of a 5-1 map wait hours to testify. West Monroe Republican Jay Morris, who authored the bill that the committee ultimately passed, responded.
Cut 7 (09) “…Greeks invented it.”
Louisiana ranks first in the nation for reading growth, according to a new report from the Education Scorecard. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says this latest scorecard measured growth from 2022 to 2025.
Louisiana also ranks second for math growth from 2022 to 2025.
Nearly seven years to the day after a group of white State Police troopers beat Ronald Greene to death during a traffic stop, the agency settled with Greene’s family for 4.8-million dollars. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says this was the best possible outcome for everyone involved.