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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).

21.3.25

Prudent to overkill marks BC incumbent spending

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In Bossier City Council elections, one incumbent seeks balance in utilizing campaign resources while another relies on his decades in office...
19.3.25

LA Democrats facing long-term minority status

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Louisiana Democrats will find themselves in an even deeper hole if national trends rippling down to the state and parish level continue apac...
18.3.25

Now started, LA should clear quickly death row

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Louisiana leaders must recognize the struggle they have invited with anti-capital punishment ideologues that wish to cancel democratically-m...
17.3.25

Resoluteness on executions needed to save lives

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Perhaps by the time you read this Louisiana will have seen through its first implementation of capital punishment in 15 years. As opposition...
16.3.25

Monroe should seek efficiencies, not tax hikes

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Maybe Monroe policy-makers should think outside the box if they want to reduce the city’s operation on a fiscal knife-edge and provide pay r...
13.3.25

Panic must not lead to opposing good amendment

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Ludwig von Mises coined the term “ useful innocents ” – later transformed by others into a less -charitable term “useful idiots” – to descri...
12.3.25

Five years on, LA learned hard pandemic lessons

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And so it started five years ago today, unwise actions by Democrat former Gov. John Bel Edwards that, as a saving grace at least, establis...
11.3.25

Speed camera rules in LA still need tightening

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An action that increasingly has become mistaken the Shreveport City Council, with Republican Mayor Tom Arceneaux’s blessing, seems set to ex...
10.3.25

Left whips up fear in attempt to scuttle revamp

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Attempts to derail Amendment 2 on Louisiana’s March 29 ballot come in two types: as previously mentioned a disingenuous legal strategy, but...
9.3.25

Vote affirmative on consequential LA amendments

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All four, including the most consequential in decades, amendments to the Louisiana Constitution on the Mar. 29 ballot deserve voter approva...
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