More than a decade ago, when he was in Congress, Gov. Jeff Landry had an idea for a fundraiser built around an alligator hunt at a family camp in the Atchafalaya Basin. It was a small-time affair at first, with Landry’s “cousins” as event volunteers.  “It was kind of an ongoing joke,” recalled Brent Littlefield, …

The Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2024 as it passed the House Committee on Agriculture is a win for Louisiana Agriculture. I encourage you to reach out to your representative in Congress and tell them we need this Farm Bill passed this year. While commodity prices have increased since the last time Congress …

Louisiana’s second constitution was completed in May of 1845. The delegates gathered in 1844 for their first attempt to update the state’s 1812 founding charter at Jackson in East Feliciana Parish, a location chosen to appease rural interests. But the delegates accomplished little before adjourning. When they reconvened in New Orleans at the St. Louis …

Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week… —PARTY TIME: National conventions don’t really pick the presidential candidates anymore, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be drama later this summer when Republicans meet in July and Democrats follow suit in August… —LOCAL ELECTIONS ABOUND: There’s going to …