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Local home rule, one of the most important reform concepts in the 1974 state constitution, came under attack Wednesday as a Senate committee unanimously approved a bill to change the Baton Rouge city-parish charter.
In The Politics of Reform, author and journalist John Maginnis traces a half century of PAR’s central role in major issues of our times–desegregation, public corruption, the new constitution, reapportionment, campaign finance and fiscal reform.
Louisiana is now one of only three states in the nation, so far, to create a permanent endowment fund with its tobacco settlement. It is the only state to have done so by constitutional amendment.