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A New Poll Has Jamie Davis Within Four Points of Julia Letlow. Here’s What the Numbers Actually Show.

August 15, 2026

When it comes to Louisiana statewide races, we tend to take early polling with a grain of salt. Republicans usually start with an obvious advantage. But a new Public Policy Polling survey showing Republican Julia Letlow leading Democrat Jamie Davis by only four points is a little harder to ignore. Granted, there have been some […]

Louisiana Families Are Paying the Price for Trump’s Health Care Choices

August 10, 2026

We are seeing, in very real terms, what happens when Washington makes health care harder to afford. Across Louisiana, more people are showing up at hospitals without insurance. Families who had coverage just months ago are now going without it because they simply cannot afford it anymore. The numbers are troubling. As The Times-Picayune | […]

Drew Brees Enters the Hall of Fame, Carrying New Orleans With Him

August 9, 2026

There are statistics that explain why Drew Brees belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And then there are the things statistics can’t fully explain or capture what it felt like to be in New Orleans in 2006, when an entire city was trying to put itself back together. Statistics can’t  measure the suffering […]

Candidates Lining Up for Official Start of Fall Elections

August 3, 2026

With qualifying for district attorney and for most members of New Orleans judiciary set to begin Wednesday, August 5, elected officials, candidates, their donors and key constituents have been making the rounds of campaign kick-offs like the one hosted by Criminal Court Judge Robin Pittman late last week at the Cannery. First elected to Criminal […]

Davis, Letlow to Campaign in New Orleans This Week

August 1, 2026

U.S. Senate candidates Democrat Jamie Davis and Republican Julia Letlow will campaign in New Orleans this week at two separate events that are free and open to the public. The Orleans Parish Republican Executive Committee, the Greater New Orleans Republicans PAC, and the Greater New Orleans Republican Women will host a meet and greet for […]


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A New Poll Has Jamie Davis Within Four Points of Julia Letlow. Here’s What the Numbers Actually Show.

August 15, 2026

When it comes to Louisiana statewide races, we tend to take early polling with a grain of salt. Republicans usually start with an obvious advantage. But a new Public Policy Polling survey showing Republican Julia Letlow leading Democrat Jamie Davis by only four points is a little harder to ignore. Granted, there have been some […]

Murrill’s “It’s Not Over” Signals a New Level of Political Brinkmanship in Louisiana

August 12, 2026

The moment that might have signaled a cooling of tensions in Louisiana arrived in late July and immediately turned into something else. Special prosecutor Laurie White dropped the criminal charges against Attorney General Liz Murrill, acting at the request of Mayor Helena Moreno and five City Council members. The response from Murrill was not reciprocal […]

Louisiana’s Political Scorched Earth

August 12, 2026

Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are borrowing a page from Washington’s playbook, training the machinery of state power on political opponents in New Orleans in a manner that outside observers are beginning to describe as deliberate, coordinated lawfare. The Baton Rouge Advocate examined the widening rift and found a conflict that looks […]

Five Years After Ida, Entergy’s Grid Bill Is Climbing and the Proof Is Still Incomplete

August 12, 2026

Five years after Hurricane Ida knocked out power to more than a million Louisiana households for weeks at a stretch, two Entergy utilities are more than halfway through billion-dollar grid-hardening programs. The surcharges funding that work already appear on monthly bills, and they are rising. What remains unclear is whether the investment will hold when […]


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