What you missed in LaPolitics (07.09.24)

What you missed in LaPolitics (07.09.24)
Jul 09, 2024

Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published on June 20…

— EDUCATION OVERFLOW: Monty Sullivan, president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, reopened an old debate when he publicly suggested that Louisiana has too many universities…

— GATOR HUNT: Gov. Jeff Landry’s annual alligator hunt fundraiser has grown from a small affair staffed by Landry’s relatives to a mini-festival that celebrates Cajun culture and raises more than $1 million…

— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “You can give incentives for business growth all you want, but without investing it in our roads, bridges and ports, you are really just spinning your wheels,” said former state Sen. Rick Ward

— FIELD NOTES: Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Craig Greene has decided not to run for reelection. The Republican has often been the swing vote on the five-member PSC…

— SHOP TALK: Five ways to improve your fundraising this summer…

— OUR HISTORY: The title character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, is fictional, though she nevertheless played a prominent role in the region’s culture…

— THEY SAID IT: “I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms. And I can’t wait to be sued.” —Gov. Jeff Landry speaking at the Tennessee Republican Statesmen’s Dinner, in The Tennessean 

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