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

— GIVING YOU PROPS: Louisiana voters will wade through more than 50 municipal and parish propositions on the November ballot, including a handful that could substantively reshape how local governments and administrations function…

— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “We are treating this as Louisiana’s Super Bowl. We will have a general, all-Louisiana approach to our business messaging. We will also have a very targeted approach in our outreach, using this tremendous opportunity to showcase Louisiana as a premier destination for business investment,” Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois said…

— NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: Tax policy, K-12 education funding and housing are among this year’s top issues noted by state fiscal analysts across the country…

— FIELD NOTES: Louisiana’s Future is Now, Inc., headquartered in McLean, Virginia, has created and shared an attack video targeting Senate Judiciary A Chair Greg Miller, claiming he “continuously blocks or weakens legislation intended to reduce the influence of personal injury lawyers on our insurance costs”…

— SHOP TALK: The havoc extreme heat wreaks on aging infrastructure…

— OUR HISTORY: Edwin Washington Edwards, who defined late-20th-century Louisiana politics, for better or worse, was born in Avoyelles Parish on yesterday’s date in 1927…

— THEY SAID IT: “Tell your child not to look at them.” —Gov. Jeff Landry’s message to parents who don’t support posting the Ten Commandments in public schools. 

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