Following a U.S. Senate hearing this week on birthright citizenship, U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt R-Mo and Peter Schweizer, ...

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry didn’t say much specifically about how he would get Louisiana to go where he wanted, but when he ...

We want an explicit prohibition that ICE is nowhere near any polling sites. We’re not going to bend.” – Hakeem Jeffries, ...

The semi-closed primary is not a problem but rather a prime solution to fix Louisiana’s lagging policy-making system. In its upcoming session, the Legislature will vet a couple of bills that would ...

There are more than 1300 bills filed, and that fact makes it difficult to do a creditable job summarizing the legislative session at Louisiana’s Capitol that began Monday and will last until early ...

A Louisiana legislator recently delivered a spirited defense of lightly-regulated carbon sequestration, but she omitted the bigger picture that significantly Republican state Rep. Jessica Domangue had ...

Back in January 2026 and September 2025, you may recall that I published multiple articles on The Hayride about the Louisiana ...

The second auction of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of America since President Donald Trump’s election in 2024 drew almost $47 million in high bids, with 98% of the activity in offshore areas deeper ...

A byproduct of economic weakness manifests itself in the revenues that are available to state and local governments. In NOLA, declining populations driven by a non-growth economy have resulted in ...

Since the time of Huey Long, Louisiana has been burdened by its own form of socio-economic populism. This is populism highlighted by policies that ensconce the power of the few by promising to defend ...

There is an ad running all over TV in Louisiana from a PAC which is backing Bill Cassidy (you didn’t know that, but yeah) about Julia Letlow and how she’s been taking advantage of congressional ...

Mohamed Jalloh, a former U.S. service member and naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone who shot and killed one person and injured two others at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday, was ...