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Praise for reforms from judge overseeing New Orleans police
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Wed,04/20/22-6:01PM , 94 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge and court appointed monitors hired to oversee reform of the New Orleans Police Department said Wednesday that the long-troubled agency could reach full compliance this year after a nearly decade-old court-backed overhaul of its policies and practices.
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Louisiana governor: Trans girls sports bill is 'unnecessary'
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Wed,04/20/22-10:43AM , 78 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday that he remains opposed to a bill what would keep transgender athletes in Louisiana from competing on college and K-12 women’s and girls’ sport teams, but he stopped short of saying he would veto a bill that passed the Senate hours earlier.
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President Joe Biden speaks during the "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" event at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. In a victory for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court Thursday, April 14, 2022 refused to revisit its March decision reviving administration plans to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

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Biden 'cost of carbon' policy survives another legal hurdle
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Thu,04/14/22-1:46PM , 125 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a victory for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court Thursday refused to revisit its March decision reviving administration plans to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries.
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Bills to curb health emergency powers advance in Louisiana
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Wed,04/13/22-5:33PM , 87 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The state Legislature could end public health emergency declarations by future governors under legislation approved Wednesday by a House committee in Baton Rouge.

A 6-5 vote by the House and Governmental Affairs Committee sent the bill by Republican state Rep. Lawrence Frieman of Abita Springs to the full House.
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