U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chaired a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing on dyslexia at LSU Tuesday afternoon. The hearing aimed to raise awareness for dyslexia, identify...
The LSU Alumni Association released answers from the four leading Louisiana gubernatorial candidates to a survey regarding higher education Monday afternoon.
The Association sent a list of six questions...
Stacks of wooden foldout tables, boxes of T-shirts and campaign signs filled state Rep. John Bel Edwards’ campaign headquarters Thursday.
His team’s office, a bright yellow house in downtown...
Nine months after taking office in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, was back in the Capital City — this time, to talk to constituents on LSU’s campus.
LSU...
In the shadow of the towering Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge is the Capitol annex, an unsuspecting building housing the No. 2 in Louisiana’s political chain of command, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne.
Dardenne...
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) will chair a Senate committee hearing Oct. 13 on LSU’s campus, according to a news release from Cassidy’s office.
His visit to the university will be the second...
In 1991, a 32-year-old offshore caterer from Algiers, Louisiana turned a practical idea into a multimillion-dollar business. Now, at 56, former Plaquemines Parish President, Republican Billy Nungesser,...
In an office lined with pictures, souvenirs and memorabilia from a 31-year political career, Secretary of State Tom Schedler held up his iPhone and described it as the pride of his last four years in office.
He...
Republican Jefferson Parish President John Young marked his map from Bogue Chitto to Tickfaw as he plotted out the trail to visit all 22 of Louisiana’s state parks during his campaign for lieutenant...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton championed middle-class economics, affordable health care and racial justice at a campaign stop at the Louisiana Leadership Institute in Baton Rouge on...
Contenders to be Louisiana’s next lieutenant governor gathered Thursday in Drusilla Place’s Bayou Room for a relatively tame candidate forum — save for a heated interaction between Democratic...
As the 11 leading Republican candidates stood in front of a former Air Force One jet Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, one topic dominated the majority of...
