If you’re planning on going to Paris to watch the Saints play this year, you can now start making your plans. Andrew Greenstein reports that’s because we now know not only the opponent, but also the date.
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A marathon meeting of Senate Governmental Affairs results in the approval of a Congressional map that will likely result in five Republicans and one Democrat representing Louisiana in the US House. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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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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The two teams have met 17 times, with the Saints leading the all-time series, nine-to-eight, including wins in four of the last five matchups.
This game will officially be a Saints home game. Duncan says in a way, it really will be a Saints home game – the Saints have exclusive marketing rights to France.
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Duncan says if you’re planning on going, make your plans now, and plan on arriving a few days earlier, since there will be plenty of events and plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow Saints fans.
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The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee spent all night debating a new Congressional map and after nearly ten hours a map was approved 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 with two majority Black districts. New Orleans Senator Royce Duplessis explained why opponents to a 5-1 map waited hours to testify…
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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Duplessis told West Monroe Republican Jay Morris that Blacks would be underrepresented with a five-one map…
Before approving a five-one Congressional map, Senate Governmental Affairs rejected a 4-2 map, where two districts in southeast Louisiana would give Black voters an opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice. The measure failed on four-three party line vote as all four Republicans voted against the measure. The vote angered many who spent the night at the capitol…
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Another member of the public told the committee she thought the passionate testimony in support of a Congressional map with Black majority districts would sway the Republican lawmakers on the panel, but it did not…
The full Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a five-one Congressional map that Republicans support.
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Louisiana State Police has agreed to pay the family of Ronald Greene 4.8-million dollars to settle the wrongful death case. The settlement comes almost seven years to the day after a group of white troopers fatally beat Greene, who was Black, during a traffic stop in Union Parish. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says given the degree of liability for the loss of a human life, this is a very reasonable settlement.
Borghardt says this was the best possible outcome for everyone involved.
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As for whether this settlement will serve as a deterrent from something like this from happening again, Borghardt says this is more of a case of the settlement being the icing on the cake.
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In a statement, Attorney General Liz Murrill says the state agreed that it was time to end the litigation, which arose under the prior administration, and put the matter behind everyone involved.
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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. Brumley says the rankings are a point of pride for our state, but they are far from satisfied and will keep pushing for greater academic outcomes…