A bill to prevent the state’s use of eminent domain to support carbon capture storage and pipelines failed 12-7 in an extraordinarily tense House committee hearing Tuesday, March 31 in Baton Rouge. House Bill 7, authored by House Speaker Pro Temp Mike Johnson, R-Pineville, marked an attempt to rever...

Louisiana is still facing a shortage of about 1,200 teachers, according to testimony at a House hearing last week. The shortage was more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic, when classrooms across the state struggled to keep staff as thousands of teachers retired over health concerns or work difficu...