William Patrick

BATON ROUGE – An unemployment compromise will deliver an 11% maximum increase in unemployment benefits for out-of-work Louisianans, starting this week. Gov. John Bel Edwards...

BATON ROUGE – Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday the Louisiana Economic Development (LED) agency landed 34 projects in 2021, totaling a purported $20...

BATON ROUGE – U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is trying to stop an effort to allow the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from making direct...

BATONROUGE – Louisiana has failed to provide adequate public information about taxpayer money received through the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund, a new report from...

BATON ROUGE – A Louisiana “safe harbor” provision protecting businesses that make first-time mistakes when classifying employees as independent contractors has run afoul of...

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said he will file a lawsuit to stop a “rehabilitation” plan for an insolvent out-of-state insurance...

BATON ROUGE – Fiscal watchdog Truth in Accounting has knocked Louisiana’s annual financial report with several low-transparency findings. State governments release comprehensive annual financial reports...

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is touting an oil-and-gas land lease sale – the first of the Biden administration – that...

BATON ROUGE – Voters narrowly rejected a constitutional amendment ballot question that would have streamlined Louisiana’s decentralized sales tax system, but lawmakers and business...