Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…

— CAR CRASH TORT REFORM STALLS: Backers privately blamed Gov. Jeff Landry for the business lobby’s first big loss of the session, as several insurance industry-backed bills meant to address the state’s high auto insurance rates were watered down or tabled in the Senate…

— MAP UNCERTAINTY UPENDS DONOR PATTERNS: As the courts continue to wade through our congressional map drama, some donors, consultants and others who spend or make money on Louisiana politics are in limbo waiting to either cut checks or get them…

— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “I clearly remember DA Ricky Babin becoming red in the face and screaming his opposition while sitting directly across from me. We are friends now, but I used to ask the DAs to please not invite the guy who looks like he wants to fight me all the time,” said former Rep. Joe Marino about negotiations around the 2017 criminal justice overhaul…

— FIELD NOTES: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has thrown its support behind HB 577, which passed the House unanimously last week…

— SHOP TALK: Issues with streaming ad approval? Sometimes you need to walk away…

— OUR HISTORY: The unit of Black men and free men of color that became known as the Louisiana Native Guard served on both sides of the Civil War, albeit in very different capacities…

— THEY SAID IT: “This puts a big quagmire in congressional elections, regardless of the candidates.” —Senate and Governmental Affairs Chair Cleo Fields, on the court decision throwing out the congressional map, in The Advocate

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