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President Emmanuel Macron of France, French First Lady Brigitte Macron and other members of the French delegation will touch down in New Orleans for a day of French Quarter touring, climate talks, and celebrating its shared Francophone culture in Louisiana on Friday afternoon.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards has used his veto power to give higher education faculty a larger pay raise than the one legislators approved last month.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards declined Wednesday to share his personal views on a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards took a train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans on Wednesday morning — a trip he hopes everyone will be able to book soon.
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A Louisiana utility plans to invest $900 million into capturing and storing carbon emissions from its largest power generation units in the state by 2028, the governor’s office announced Monday.
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The proposal from Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration to tighten up rules for nursing home hurricane evacuations would prohibit state records about how well those plans are executed from being released publicly.
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Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, said Thursday that he would only support the governor’s plan to put $500 million toward a new Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area this year, if the state picks the bridge’s location before the state budget is finalized in June – a timeline transportation officials say is not realistic.
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Looking to attract federal money, Louisiana will partner with two other states — Arkansas and Oklahoma — to form a regional hub in developing “clean hydrogen,” the Governor’s Office announced Thursday.
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After weeks of debate, Republican state lawmakers ended Louisiana’s redistricting session by pushing through new congressional and state legislative maps that did not increase minority representation, despite Democrats’ and civil rights groups' claims that failing to do so could violate federal law.
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The COVID-19 emergency proclamation was renewed once again for Louisiana for another 28 days, though Gov. John Bel Edwards hinted at finally terminating the order by or before its expiration date due to falling case numbers and rising immunity amid omicron.