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With little attention, Louisiana has poured more than $1 billion in higher-than-usual business tax collections into a six-year-old trust fund aimed at lessening the state’s overreliance on the volatile income source.
After years of failed attempts to replace its aging voting machines, Louisiana is planning a wholesale redesign of the system used to cast ballots in the first significant change to its voting equipment in decades.
Louisiana’s largest sources of money to pay for coastal restoration and protection work will run dry within the next decade, leaving the state far short of the cash needed to fulfill its master plan, respond to climate change and safeguard its residents and businesses.
Surprising few, Louisiana’s latest redistricting session turned out to be a flop, more a tense reminder ofthe polarizing and partisan nature of the mapping work than a good-faith effort to comply with a federaljudge’s order requiring new congressional boundary lines. Most legislators seemed to be engaged intheater, performing for judges or their constituents, rather than […]
Louisiana lawmakers completed a three-month regular session more likely to be remembered for the post-pandemic spending spree, record-setting education increases and significant infrastructure investments than for sweeping policy changes.
Louisiana’s booming budget forecast grew even larger, at least for the next 14 months, after the state’s income forecasting panel revised its projections to account for the taxes pouring into state coffers.
Even as they wisely steer money to debt payments, education and infrastructure investments, Louisiana lawmakers also are making the short-sighted, politically driven decision to spend millions of dollars on local pet projects without public vetting or explanation.