The political battle between Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and New Orleans leaders continues to escalate with Murrill now threatening to remove Mayor Helena Moreno and other elected officials for violating state law if they go through with an election for a new court clerk. UNO political science professor Ed Chervenak says the state can tell parishes and cities how they organize their government….

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Mayor Helena Moreno says Murrill has violated state law by threatening to remove her and others from office.

The legislature has sent to the Governor’s desk a bill that sets new election dates for the six US House races, and temporarily move them back to open primaries. House Governmental Affairs Chairman Beau Beaullieu was asked why this year’s U.S. House races can’t be closed primaries…:

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He says the 2026 House races will be an open primary in November, with a December runoff.

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says a fraud-detection platform called Anti-Fraud One, led to the arrest of six Ouachita Parish residents who were involved in a long-running insurance fraud scheme involving fire and water damage claims…

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Temple did not provide specific details of what the alleged fraud scheme entailed.

Education Scorecard ranks Louisiana first among states in reading growth from 2022 to 2025 and second among states in math growth over that same time frame. Governor Jeff Landry congratulates the students for achieving historic academic gains.

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This Scorecard follows the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, where Louisiana jumped 17 spots up to number-32 — the highest ranking in the state’s history.

The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill that sets new election dates for the suspended U-S House races. The elections will move back to an Open Primary with the primary set for November third and a December 12^th runoff House Governmental Affairs Chairman Beau Beaullie was asked if it’s legal to have the Senate races as closed primaries while the House races are open primaries…

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Qualifying for U-S House open primaries will be August 5^th through the 7^th.

Coming up today on the Senate floor, Louisiana Senators will debate the bill that would return the state’s Congressional District map to five Republican majority districts and one Democratic majority district. The House Democratic delegation knows they do not have the votes to stop it, so litigation is likely once the bill is signed by Governor Landry.

Louisiana students continue to outperform most students when it comes to reading and math growth. According to a new report from the Education Scorecard, Louisiana ranked first among states in reading growth and second in math progress from 2022 to 2025. Governor Landry says when the same report came out last year, Louisiana held the same rankings in both metrics in the period from 2019-2024….

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The Louisiana Department of Insurance says six Ouachita Parish residents have been arrested following an investigation into a long-running insurance fraud scheme. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says a fraud-detection platform called Anti-Fraud One, identifyied a network of suspicious insurance claims…

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Louisiana is one of three states to using Anti-Fraud one.

The meeting lasted more than nine hours; but at 4:30 this morning, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee passed a new congressional map that has one majority Democratic district and five majority Republican districts. Prior to the final vote, members called out committee members for already having their minds made up.

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The meeting took all night, because numerous people went before the committee to express their support for a Congressional map with two majority minority districts. West Monroe Senator Jay Morris is the author of the map with one majority Black district and was asked how he felt that dozens of people came to the capitol to oppose his bill….

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The full Senate is expected to debate Morris’ bill tomorrow.

If you’re planning on going to Paris to watch the Saints play this year, you can now start making your plans…

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State Police has agreed to pay the family of Ronald Greene 4.8-million dollars nearly seven years to the day after a group of white troopers fatally beat Greene, who was Black, during a traffic stop in Union Parish. As for whether this settlement will serve as a deterrent from something like this from happening again, legal analyst Franz Borghardt says you didn’t need the settlement for that.

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A marathon meeting of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that ended at 4:30 this morning resulted in the panel approving a five-one Congressional District map, which means one less Black majority district than the current map which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Blacks on the committee are still pushing for a Congressional map with two majority Black Districts. New Orleans Democrat Royce Duplessis told West Monroe Republican Jay Morris that Blacks would be underrepresented with a five-one map…

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A Congressional map featuring five safe seats for Republicans and one seat for Democrats was approved on a four-three vote and will be taken up by the full Senate tomorrow.

We’ve known for a while that the Saints will be playing a game in Paris this season. Now, we know the date and their opponent – October 25th against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jeff Duncan, who covers the Saints for The Advocate and NOLA-dot-com, says everyone thought that their opponent would be the Browns, but the NFL had other ideas.

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Duncan expects a lot of Who Dats will travel overseas for the game.

SeaD (seed) Consulting says a recent audit of Baton Rouge restaurants found that nine of the 44 restaurants they visited improperly labeled their shrimp as domestic, when it was actually imported. SeaD founder David Williams says what these restaurants are doing violates state law…

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The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee literally spent all night debating a new Congressional district map for Louisiana and after nearly ten hours of discussion the panel approved a map at around 4:30 this morning that has one majority Black district. The committee heard hours of testimony from the public who urged Senators to pass a six-district map that has two majority Black districts. New Orleans Senator Royce Duplessis explained why they waited hours for their turn to testify…

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Duplessis directed those comments towards Republican West Monroe Senator Jay Morris, who is the author of the map that favors Republicans to represent five of the six districts.…

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The five-one map heads to the Senate floor for more debate.

Lost in all of the redistricting discussion is the news that Louisiana lawmakers have less money to spend than what was originally forecasted. Melinda Deslatte with the Public Affairs Research Council says this jeopardizes Governor Landry’s request to double the funding of the Louisiana GATOR Scholarship program, the state’s voucher program. She says Senate President Cameron Henry was not on board with Landry’s request anyways.

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Lawmakers have until June 1st to approve a budget that will be 104-million dollars lighters because of the new economic forecast adopted.

It will be the Saints and Steelers in the first ever NFL regular season game in Paris. Initial reports had New Orleans playing the Browns but it turns out the Black and Gold will take on Pittsburgh in France on October 25^th.