In 2024, Governor Jeff Landry and the Legislature delivered the largest tax cut in state history, moving Louisiana off a three-bracket system that topped out at 4.25 percent and onto a flat 3 percent individual income tax. It was a real win for working families and small businesses, and it proved that meaningful tax reform is possible here. But it was also just a first step. Louisiana remains one of a shrinking number of states that still taxes work and retirement income at a

As Louisiana closes in on landing one of the biggest economic development deals in its history, a rocket launch facility for Elon Musk's SpaceX on coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish, the federal government just took the single most important step toward making sure the deal is actually worth signing. Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed sweeping rule changes that would let aerospace companies bypass more than a dozen environmental protection laws when ap