David Jacobs

Heading into the recent special session on taxation, those who make, track or influence legislative votes knew the Big Picture outcome would be shaped by one important question: What are

Congressman-elect Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge said Congress hasn’t changed all that much since he last served there almost three decades ago.

LaPolitics recently spoke with Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming after he announced his 2026 candidacy for the U.S. Senate. How do you plan to overcome the fundraising haul that U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has already accumulated for his reelection? Fleming: I really don’t think it matters. For instance, when I was elected to state treasurer, I […]

(The Center Square) – The Louisiana Workforce Commission may have paid more than $405 million last year in unemployment benefits to people who were not eligible based on their income,

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Even if you disagree with everything they did, or believe they tried to do too much too quickly, it’s hard to argue against the premise that Gov. Jeff Landry and the Legislature accomplished a lot in the tax-focused special session.

Louisiana voters, or at least the not quite 11% of them who showed up, concluded their civic duty for the calendar year last Saturday in 2024’s final elections. Almost one third of all the voters who did participate were residents of East Baton Rouge Parish, where turnout reached nearly 36% to help Sid Edwards―a high […]

As the Legislature prepares to end an exceptionally busy year, what happens next year is already an intense focus of those who work in and around Capitoland. A mini-preview kicked off last week with a joint meeting of the House committees on insurance and civil law, which have been discussing what will surely be one […]

As the Legislature prepares to end an exceptionally busy year, what happens next year is already an intense focus of those who work in and around Capitoland.

If you’re hoping to score tickets to the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, on Jan. 20, and haven’t yet made a request, you might want to stop what you’re doing and reach out to your friends on the Hill. The sooner the better. Each member of the U.S. House and Senate gets an allotment […]