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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.
Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers have put $31.7 million toward refurbishing the outside of the Louisiana State Capitol.
Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers have put $31.7 million toward refurbishing the outside of the Louisiana State Capitol, Louisiana Illuminator writes.  The money—part of the annual state ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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.
Louisiana’s present State Capitol building was dedicated in 1932. In Pittsburgh, civic leaders built a skyscraper to celebrate learning. Louisiana’s most famous skyscraper is a monument for ...
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 ...