The Democratic controlled U-S House voted to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, claiming the president abused his power by pushing a foreign country to investigate a political rival. Louisiana’s five House Republican members voted against it, while Democratic Congressman Cedric Richmond voted for impeachment.

Louisiana saw a slight increase in higher ed enrollment this past fall semester, one of the few states to do so…
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Governor John Bel Edwards says he’s already talking to the likely legislative leaders of the next legislature as he hopes to have a good relationship with a body that will be controlled by the Republican Party. Edwards says he’s fine with legislative independence, but he just doesn’t want to see a group of lawmakers become obstructionists
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Louisiana Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children is seeking more African American and male volunteers in an attempt to diversify its volunteer base. CASA Louisiana Executive Director Kathleen Stewart Richey says nearly 60 percent of the children who get court-appointed volunteers are minorities, but most of their volunteers are white women.
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Stewart says the program needs to have more volunteers, seeing as 7,900 children are in foster care annually, but only 3,600 receive CASA agents.