The Congressional Tobacco Harm Reduction Caucus expanded its leadership this month, naming Republican Aaron Bean of Florida and Democrat Jennifer McClellan of Virginia as vice co-chairs. They join co-chairs Guy Reschenthaler, a Pennsylvania Republican, and Don Davis, a North Carolina Democrat, atop a group of roughly forty-five members. The additions land with the 119th Congress winding down and a contentious midterm cycle bearing down on both parties, which makes the caucus

Every governor promises economic growth. Few deliver anything close to what Jeff Landry has put on the board in two and a half years. More than $150 billion in announced capital investment since he took office. Roughly 16,000 new jobs at wages nearly double the state average. A steel mill in Ascension Parish, one of the largest LNG export terminals in the country, a data center campus in Richland Parish that will top $50 billion on its own. And now, closing in on final approv

What does ownership mean? For most of American history the answer was straightforward: if you paid for something outright, you owned all of it, free to open it, modify it, repair it, or sell it exactly as you saw fit. Louisiana has the oldest property rights tradition in the United States, the one state in the country whose civil code traces back through the Napoleonic Code rather than English common law, and for two centuries that lineage has meant something specific here: o

China is building a weapon that could bring the United States to its knees without firing a single shot. It’s taking over global pharmaceutical development – and gaining unprecedented control of the medical innovations Americans depend on. Chinese companies account for nearly a third of drugs currently in development, and China recently surpassed the United States in conducting clinical trials. By 2040, China is projected to be responsible for over a third of new FDA approval

In St. Charles Parish and across Louisiana, sheriffs pride themselves on knowing our communities. We know our neighbors and our streets. And increasingly, we know the devastation that follows when residents lose their life savings to a scam that began with a phone call, a text or an online message. What has changed is not criminal intent. Scammers have existed for centuries. What has changed is the speed, scale and sophistication of their tools. Cryptocurrency has become a fa

Small business owners often survive on tight deadlines and thin margins. It’s a constant balancing act between rising costs and customer expectations. Like many entrepreneurs, I rely on every tool available to stay competitive. One of those tools is credit card rewards. That’s why the Credit Card Competition Act concerns me. In theory, the bill aims to increase competition among payment networks and reduce transaction fees for businesses like mine. In practice, however, it r

As an EMT, I know that trust is the backbone of any functioning system. We encounter community members on some of the worst days of their lives. In situations like these, trust is crucial. Our community has no choice but to believe that the ambulance will come, that the hospital is properly equipped, and that the system is built to protect them when something goes wrong. As newlyweds, my wife and I are putting a similar level of trust in our financial system. We’re saving, in

Louisiana has spent years trying to compete with the rest of the South — and falling short. People are leaving, businesses are hesitant, and too often, policymakers have answered by tweaking around the edges instead of fixing the core problem. But something has started to change. Under Governor Landry's leadership, Louisiana finally took a meaningful step forward by simplifying its tax code and moving to a flat 3 percent income tax — now the lowest in the South and among the

With apologies for stealing and changing this line : OK, Landry, Nelson, Emerson, et. al. were right. Last week , Louisiana’s Revenue Estimating Conference held its end-of-calendar-year meeting to revise numbers. These revisions can mean the state might have extra money from past budget years to spend on essentially one-time items, extra money for this budget year to spend on anything, and more to spend on the upcoming fiscal year 2027 budget – or it might be reversals in thi

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WATCH as Sen. John Kennedy GRILLS uber liberal economist on a how he feels on a radical WEALTH TAX!

The radical Democrats are once again showing their true colors by pushing for dangerous legislation that would undermine the privacy...

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