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BATON ROUGE — Surrounded by legislators, economic development leaders and business stakeholders from around the state, Gov. Jeff Landry recently signed legislation that fulfills his commitment to overhaul the state’s approach to economic development and revitalize business investment and job creation statewide.

“Discipline” is a word that is pregnant with meaning. We can use the expression “being disciplined” to mean that one shows selfrestraint and has regulated his or her life in such a way that there is order and that one’s life is productive. We can also talk of “being disciplined” to mean that one is being punished by external forces or agents.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officially reversing a controversial March ruling, Louisiana's highest court Wednesday gave childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

— A bill regulating the practice of third-party litigation funding from foreign entities and wealth funds was sent to the governor's desk last week.

— A group of 17 state attorneys general, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration this week over a rule that allows temporary farm workers in the country on H-2A visas the power to unionize.

Jennings City Council introduced a budget for the upcoming fiscal year at Tuesday’s meeting. Mayor Henry Guinn and City Council President Stevie VanHook, along with council members Carolyn Simon, Johnny Armentor, Clifton LeJeune and Anthony LeBlanc, worked together to create a comprehensive budget for the city.