Louisiana Voice
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Tom Aswell, a native of Ruston, has lived in the Baton Rouge area for 30 years and for 10 of those years, ran Capitol News Service, covering state government for about 40 weekly and small daily newspapers throughout the state. Louisiana Voice blog was created to provide the citizens of Louisiana an inside look at how your legislators and other elected officials carry on the state's..
Louisiana Voice
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I suppose you could say it’s official: State Rep. Kelee Hennessy Dickerson, who represents House District 64, which comprises part of Livingston Parish, is an official member of the bedbug crazy MAGAmites. The freshman legislator has introduced three bills which appear to put her on the same moral equivalence level as one Marjorie Taylor Greene ..read more
Louisiana Voice
3M ago
I know, I know, I’m supposed to be retired from this blog after almost 13 years – and I am – but I’m still writing other projects and I just wanted to let you know that I have another book out now. It’s a follow-up to Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption. I decided ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
Obviously, lying about your job history, education and athletic prowess, theft, using campaign funds for personal expenses, including casino visits, Botox treatments and porn surfing give one unchallenged qualification to serve in the US House of Representatives. That is, if you go by the vote of 114 members of the House who voted No on ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
Bring Back Democracy Posted by Mark Zaborowski CLAY HIGGINS (R-LA) MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN DONALD TRUMP There are some similarities between the two politicians. Yes, Higgins is a down home Southern boy and Trump is an East Coast elitist. But they are both salesmen who love the spotlight and would-be hard asses who get off ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
Louisiana Sen. John “Foghorn Leghorn” Kennedy surely got his comeuppance during Tuesday’s attempted ambush of Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The St. Tammany self-styled scaramouche apparently thought he could browbeat the good doctor, though it was never abundantly clear just what point he was trying ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
As one who has been bombarded with multiple solicitations – that’s multiple on a daily basis, sometimes as many as a dozen in a day – from Donald Trump, the Republican Party and various national Republican candidates, it really came as no surprise when a friend sent me a solicitation she received from House Speaker ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll state my conviction again that Louisiana Tech University will never swim with the big fish in college football. My alma mater, which gave the world such notables as country singers Kix Brooks and Trace Adkins and athletes like Karl Malone, Terry Bradshaw, Fred Dean and Phil Robertson, has deluded ..read more
Louisiana Voice
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Amanda Jones may have lost her opening skirmish against those who unfairly attacked her but the fight is very much alive and she continues to get rave reviews from national media for her courageous stand in defense of the First Amendment right to choose what we want to read. Jones, a school librarian in Livingston ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
Holy conspiracy theory, Batman, break out the Batmobile, Clay Higgins is up to his old tricks! You remember Clay Higgins, right? He’s the dangerously deranged congressman from Louisiana’s zany Third District who alluded in a committee hearing a few years back to the thousands of arrests he’d made as a law enforcement officer (his former ..read more
Louisiana Voice
4M ago
If ever Winston Churchill’s quote about “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside and enigma,” could be applied to any individual today, that individual would almost certainly be new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. House Republicans, desperate to the point of outright panic, chose Johnson after the toppling of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and ..read more