A Senate panel voted 6-2 to advance a bill that would gut public access to information at every level of government.
Louisiana Considered
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Maia Szalavitz discusses harm reduction's effectiveness against drug addiction, how punitive policies can hurt people who need pain medication and more.
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The dispute stems from a ruling by a Louisiana judge that the agency’s application of race-based considerations exceeds its authority.
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The company wants a decision made by Friday — just days after it filed the final draft of the proposal.
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Lawmakers on the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 6-2 to advance a bill that would gut much of Louisiana’s public records law. They also advanced a bill to require identification to request public records.
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Lawmakers on a Senate committee unanimously advanced a bill to remove gassing as an approved method of execution. Plus, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee began discussion of a bill calling for a constitutional convention.
Arts & Culture
NPR News
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Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.
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China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.
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Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
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A economic research study shows that oncologists' prescribing habits change after they've been visited by pharmaceutical sales reps — and it also shows the changes do not extend patients' lives.