An inconvenient truth is being overshadowed by an increasingly tedious melodrama between Gov. Jeff Landry and Mayor Helena Moreno, and not many of my fellow New Orleanians are willing to admit it.
Gov. Jeff Landry said he won’t personally talk to New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno until after an investigation determines who was behind the July indictment of Attorney General Liz Murrill.Â
Louisiana lawmakers have partially restored funding for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans that Gov. Jeff Landry removed from the state budget in June. The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approved $1 million Thursday for the music school and venue that provides programming to children in struggling communities. Lawmakers had originally […]
Louisiana lawmakers signed off Thursday on a 10-year, no-bid contract worth $192.6 million to provide public safety equipment and technology for law enforcement and the prison system.
Louisiana’s current U.S. House races might appear similar to those underway just three months ago before the May 16 congressional primary was canceled, but they’re not.
Spending for the state government’s watchdog agency has more than doubled since Gov. Jeff Landry selected a new leader earlier this year.
Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to provide another round of temporary pay stipends to public school employees could exclude thousands of positions that previously received the pay bump.Â
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the selection of Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho as potential host states for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, a new effort to strengthen and modernize the nation’s full nuclear fuel cycle.
BATON ROUGE, La. — A legal fight over Louisiana's largest economic development project is heading to the Louisiana Public Service Commission, where a judge will decide whether Meta must disclose key details about its $50 billion Hyperion data center planned for Richland Parish.The hearing comes just days after a New York Times investigation detailed how Louisiana officials secured the project through tax incentives, nondisclosure agreements and private negotiations.The report found state leaders rewrote a tax incentive bill during the 2024 legislative session to help land the project and kept negotiations confidential while competing with other states for the investment.Gov. Jeff Landry has defended the process, saying the data center will create about 1,000 permanent jobs, thousands of construction jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity for northeast Louisiana.However, questions remain about how many jobs the facility will ultimately create and how much electricity it will consume once operational.The Alliance for Affordable Energy is pushing for those details to be made public, arguing Louisiana residents and utility customers deserve greater transparency before the project moves forward. The organization says the information is critical because of the potential impact the facility could have on the state's electric grid and utility rates.Meta has been subpoenaed to disclose its projected job numbers and energy demand but maintains it is not required to release that information.An administrative law judge with the Louisiana Public Service Commission is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday to determine whether the company must comply with the subpoena.The case comes as two of the commission's five elected seats are on the ballot this November, placing additional attention on the agency responsible for regulating Louisiana's utility companies.
AUSTIN, Texas — Opposition to data centers is rapidly becoming one of Texas' most significant political issues ahead of November's general election, as a new statewide poll finds most Texans oppose building the facilities in their communities while neighboring Louisiana continues aggressively courting artificial intelligence investment.
