Stephanie Grace

of 2 In political science terms, New Orleans has what's known as a strong mayor system of government, one that allows the chief executive to exert enormous, often unchecked leadership.

Orleans Parish Jason Williams ran as a progressive prosecutor, but he's taken a pragmatic turn in office. Columnist Stephanie Grace thinks a lot of New Orleanians are fine with that. .

Despite all the national drama, this election season has been pretty quiet in Louisiana. Columnist Stephanie Grace expects that to change once Nov. 5 is behind us.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is carefully parsing his words, but it's clear that the popular Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is very much in Republican sights if Donald Trump becomes president again.

U.S. Sen. and physician Bill Cassidy stood up to Donald Trump several times before. With anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy set to play a key role in the second Trump administration, he can do it again -- if he's willing to take the political risk, writes columnist Stephanie Grace

When Gov. Jeff Landry boasted last week that he's proposing the largest tax cut in state history, he didn't mention that he's seeking to offset it with different taxes. That makes him a very different sort of Republican governor than the last one, Bobby Jindal.

Onetime U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston may have been known in Washington as a budget hawk, but at home, his constituents sure appreciated the federal spending he sent back to the district. It's a lesson that Louisiana's current leaders in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, should remember.

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser seems like he was born to be Louisiana's promoter-in-chief. He recently sat down with columnist Stephanie Grace to talk about what he's done, his hopes for next year's Super Bowl in New Orleans and how he's overcome his doubts about Gov. Jeff Landry.

It's fair to say that incoming president Donald Trump's picks to join his second administration, so far, have leaned into the — well, let's just say unorthodox.

Louisiana voters are quite familiar with electoral primaries, to the point where some still use the nonsensical term “second primary” to describe the thing that comes next, which is technically a runoff.