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The Health and Welfare committee voted 8-4 Wednesday May 26th to involuntarily defer Senate Bill 348, better known as the Louisiana Smoke Free Air Act. The committee in the past has been a place where bills to restrict...

Louisiana police and highway safety agencies are beginning the “Click-It or Ticket” campaign with the hope of stepping up education and seatbelt use in the state. Currently, seatbelt use has remained at 75 percent since...

Keep Louisiana Beautiful published a 2009 study that found that the state spends roughly $40 million per year on law enforcement, education, disposal and collection of litter at the municipal, parish and state level. Pete...

The Louisiana House Education Committee approved House Bill 994 with a 6-5 vote. This bill could have widespread ramifications for students who choose to use the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) by changing the

The Supreme Court ruled Monday May 17, 2010 that juveniles could no longer be handed down life sentences for crimes other than murders. In a 5-4 decision, the court decided that there must be “a meaningful opportunity to...

The Senate Committeee on Judiciary C sent a message to adults who bully children on the Internet when they advanced House Bill 1259 today that offers greater punishment for adults that bully children on the world wide web....

Findings published in May 16th’s Pediatrics have found a “persuasive” connection between the pesticides used on and contained in fruits and vegetables to the development of childhood learning problems. However, the data

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that it is unconstitutional for a court to sentence a minor to life imprisonment without parole unless he or she commits murder. The Supreme Court ruled that such sentences are...

Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to take the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens’ seat on the Supreme Court, is unlikely to face a filibuster from the Republican Party. However, many Senate republicans have said she

A report released by the Governors’ Highway Safety Association last week has drawn attention to what seems to be a growing problem in Louisiana: motorcycle safety. The state’s motorcycle related deaths increased by 28...

The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice involuntarily deferred House Bill 103 last week. The rejected bill would have criminalized exposing undergarments and the “cleft of the buttocks.” The...

The United States’ slumping economy appears to be on the rise after an April that saw a growth in hiring that netted 290,000 new jobs. This is the biggest such growth the country has seen in four years and continues in a...

Twenty-four of the sixty homicides that have occurred in New Orleans this year have taken place in the city’s fifth district. Despite the high rate of homicides in the fifth district, this area of the city (which includes...

Bobby Jindal has not made it a secret that he would like for the Lieutenant Governor office to be abolished in the last few months. With the recent departure of Mitch Landrieu to be the Mayor of New Orleans from the post, he

United and Continental Airlines are planning a massive merger between the nation’s third and fourth largest carriers by traffic respectively to combine to become the world’s biggest. United CEO Glenn Tilton and...

On the day in which the last remaining Mumbai terrorist was found guilty in India, the New York City Police Department continues to search through hundreds of hours of CCTV tape to find a glimpse of a man responsible for the

Rev. Rusty Durand and Rev. Toney Cooksey, pastor of a church in Pine Grove, are encouraging authorities to shut down a new nightclub, “The Mansion.” The establishment is located east of Montpelier and west of the truck...

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oilrig on April 20th and its subsequent sinking two days later has left the Gulf of Mexico facing a potential disaster. The explosion has left 11 men presumed dead, and 4 others in...