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In Case You Missed it in LaPolitics Weekly
Dustin Yates, interim mayor of St. George, speaks to the Baton Rouge Press Club on Sept. 16
Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…
—PSC RACE HEATS UP: The race to succeed Republican Craig Greene, who chose not to stand for reelection, has been fairly quiet so far. But that’s about to change…
—NEW CITY STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS: The founding of St. George, Louisiana’s newest and fifth-largest city by population, began more than a decade ago, when local leaders in southeastern East Baton Rouge Parish wanted to form their own school system…
—LaPOLITICS Q&A: “With an expected shortfall on the horizon, it appears the momentum for a [fiscal] special session is strong. I am very supportive of efforts to get in front of those projections and make changes that could help us mitigate the shortfall,” said House Natural Resources and Environment Chair Brett Geymann…
—FIELD NOTES: Regional group Conservatives for Clean Energy has launched in Louisiana, led by Louisiana native Will Hardy…
—SHOP TALK: Allocating digital ad dollars effectively down the stretch…
—OUR HISTORY: Hurricane Rita, the fourth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, made landfall in the early-morning hours of Sept. 24, 2005…
—THEY SAID IT: “These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters. But damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.” —Congressman Clay Higgins, in a since-deleted post on X.
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