G. Denise Dupree 51% of the United States is made up of sisters, wives, mothers, aunties, nieces, and daughters yet women are misrepresented in many aspects of life such as elected officials, business owners, CEOs and medical professionals. Women obtain college degrees at higher rates than men yet only make [...]
Louisiana Public Service Commission Chairman Foster Campbell The Louisiana Public Service Commission is investigating exorbitant telephone rates charged to families of inmates in Louisiana jails and prisons. What we have found suggests that rates for calls from inmates to their families and fees added to bills are extreme [...]
by Karen Carter Peterson In the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney’s plan to remove the federal government as a partner in Medicaid was briefly mentioned. For simplicity’s sake, let’s call this Romneycaid. Romneycaid would be a catastrophe for Louisiana. How do we know this? Because we are witnessing the devastating [...]
