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Jeffrey D. Sadow is an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University Shreveport. If you're an elected official, political operative or anyone else upset at his views, don't go bothering LSUS or LSU System officials about that because these are his own views solely. This publishes five days weekly with the exception of 7 holidays. Also check out his Louisiana Legislature Log especially during legislative sessions (in "Louisiana Politics Blog Roll" below).

11.1.24

LA right to decline doling out new cash benefit

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Louisiana should pass on joining a pandemic-inspired cash payment program to lower-income families intended to provide a souped-up add-on fo...
10.1.24

Landry, legislators mustn't let up against DEI

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Advice to Republican Gov. Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Legislature when it comes to the state’s higher education institutions concerning t...
9.1.24

Session to shuffle multiple election fortunes

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Republican Gov. Jeff Landry didn’t waste any time in proposing momentous changes to Louisiana’s electoral system that could be in place by...
8.1.24

Landry puts leftist business-as-usual on notice

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That crash you heard was Republican Gov. Jeff Landry throwing a brick through the plate glass window of business-as-usual leftist populism ...
7.1.24

Third time charmed to bury LA's liberal populism

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Louisiana was at this same spot 16 years ago. We don’t need to return to it a third time. There was much optimism then as Republican Rep. ...
4.1.24

Bossier govts violate comment law; some worse

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Bossier City didn’t quite get right new transparency requirements required under state law. And other parish governing authorities haven’t e...
3.1.24

Supreme Court squabble solved best by expansion

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Partisan, racial, and electoral politics have all come into focus over membership on the Louisiana Supreme Court , as conflict bubbling behi...
2.1.24

BC Council needs resolution not to act illegally

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It’s nothing new for Bossier City to make end runs around the law to accomplish what a handful of governing elites want. But at the first Ci...
29.12.23

Court clears race redo likely favoring Whitehorn

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In Louisiana politics this year, perhaps the only thing more inevitable than a Republican Jeff Landry gubernatorial victory was the Louisia...
28.12.23

Reverse sentencing subversion to deter murder

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Life in prison doesn’t mean life in prison in Louisiana, even for murder. Given the current state of capital punishment in America, this tra...
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