Announcing the Louisiana Illuminator, a nonprofit newsroom launching 6/23 to shine a light on the Bayou State.
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Independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan Louisiana news organization focused on politics. Follow us on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/laillu…
- DEVELOPING: Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a state budget proposal that would cut public school teacher pay and reduce the number of early childhood education seats available next school year. @JSODonoghue reports: lailluminator.com/2024/04/23/tea… #lalege #laed
- Louisiana: Masks on, bars off.
- BREAKING: VP Kamala Harris' campaign reacts to Louisiana hospitals pulling life-saving drug from post-delivery access, as @lorenaoneil reported earlier today. lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/har… via @pulitzercenter #Election2024
- Some schools across Louisiana will soon receive free “In God We Trust” signs to hang in their classrooms, though the designs might not be what some state lawmakers had in mind when they passed the new mandate. @WesleySMuller reports. #lalege
- BREAKING: @LSUfootball won’t alter its pregame tradition, despite Gov. Jeff Landry’s request. @ByPiperHutch reports lailluminator.com/2024/08/28/lsu… #LSU #lalege
- AG Liz Murrill & La. Right to Life were quick to claim "disinformation" in response to our recent coverage of a new law that will classify two vital pregnancy care drugs as controlled dangerous substances. We stand by @lorenaoneil's reporting.
- We stand behind our reporting.Correction: @IlluminatorLA ran a story yesterday that wildly mischaracterizes many aspects of our election integrity legislative package. The piece engages in irresponsible hyperbole without providing any evidence to support its claims.
- EXCLUSIVE: @LAGovJeffLandry cut $1 million in state funding from the largest homeless shelter in Lafayette over objections to the help its operator, Catholic Charities of Acadiana, provides to immigrants. @JSODonighue reports: lailluminator.com/2024/06/26/cat… #lalege #Homeless
- The Louisiana Senate has approved a bill to require K-12 schools that receive state money display the Ten Commandments in each classroom. The Louisiana chapter of the ACLU opposes the bill and is likely to sue once it becomes law. #lalege
- New Louisiana record: Nearly 177,000 cast ballots on first day of early voting lailluminator.com/2024/10/19/lou… #Election2024
- BREAKING: #SCOTUS rules Louisiana must redraw its congressional districts to add a second minority-majority US House seat. More to come…
- The Real Name Campaign is on its way to protest the @realDonaldTrump fundraiser in Ole Metairie #Election2024



