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The Louisiana Legislature is redrawing the state’s political representation maps this year to adjust to population changes recorded in the 2010 Census. A task mandated every 10 years, the job of redistricting is more challenging than usual this time because the state is losing a seat in Congress, Hurricane Katrina has shifted parts of the […]
Legislative committees responsible for redrawing voting districts have announced plans to invoke an exception to Louisiana’s open meetings law and hold a two-day, closed meeting to receive information relative to the law and history of redistricting. Given the significance of the 2010 redistricting cycle for Louisiana and the potential for major shifts of power nationally […]
Since the last census count in 2000, Louisiana has lost a significant amount of its populace to other states. The state’s inability to maintain population or grow as fast as its peers in the new millennium, combined with the devastating storms of 2005, has all but ensured the loss of one congressional seat in 2010 […]
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.
This edition of PARticles contains articles PAR has issued, beginning December 26, 1990, and notations of later developments.