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LOUISIANA — Louisiana organizations traveled to the Capitol building today for the Annual Lobby Day, for their chance to meet with lawmakers about what laws they support and the ones they do not.
BATON ROUGE, La. - A new documentary from Louisiana Public Broadcasting shows viewers the Louisiana State Capitol building in a way likely never seen before. From the architects that designed the ...
Louisiana's powerful business lobby had a banner year in 2024, winning long-sought tax changes and education reforms, aided by a new governor and a Republican supermajority in Baton Rouge.
A National Historic Landmark, Louisiana's Old State Capitol is not your average capitol building. Designed in a Gothic Revival architecture style and constructed between 1847 and 1852, the ...
A Tall Order: The Louisiana State Capitol. 3/1/2024 | 1h 27m 59s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Such a building could never be built today! 03/01/2024 ...
Louisiana's Capitol has seen previous threats and violence, including a 20-to-30-stick dynamite bomb that exploded on a Sunday night in 1970 inside an empty Senate chamber that was connected to an ...
When Jeff Landry takes the oath of office Monday, Jan. 8, as Louisiana’s 57th governor on the steps of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, he will be the 16th person sworn in as the state’s ...
“Gov. (Huey P.) Long wanted the capitol building to tell the history of Louisiana through its art. In essence, he got exactly that,” says LPB’s senior producer, Dorothy Kendrick.
According to the state’s Department of Revenue, Louisiana residents currently pay a 4.25% tax rate on income $50,000 and above, 3.5% on income between $12,500 and $50,000, and 1.85% on income ...
A Tall Order: The Louisiana State Capitol. 12/4/2023 | 58m 45s Video has Closed Captions | CC. LPB explores Huey P. Long’s efforts to erect the tallest capitol building in The USA ...