The Louisiana Recovery Authority, the state agency established in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to oversee billions in rebuilding aid for parishes and individuals, is four months from shutting down.
Climate change poses a threat to most U.S. bird species, including many that live and visit Louisiana's rapidly disappearing coastline, according to a new report released Thursday by ornithologists with university research laboratories, federal agencies and environmental groups.
St. Paul's retiring police chief may not be done with being a cop just yet. WDSU-TV in New Orleans reported Thursday that John Harrington was "at the top of the list" of a task force there looking for a new chief.
More than 17,000 people used state and federally funded substance-abuse, mental-health, and developmental-disabilities treatment and prevention services in the 2009 fiscal year, the executive director of the Capital Area Human Services District said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans agreed Thursday to a one-year ban on members requesting special projects for their districts — known as earmarks — a move that could have a significant financial impact for Louisiana with its Republican-laden House delegation.
Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.
