Tough on Crime or Right on Crime?

By Sarah Harbison

07/26/2013

Louisiana can find a better way to fight crime, prioritize victims and protect taxpayers.

TAGS: Austin Badon, Criminal Justice Reform, incarceration rate, Louisiana, Right On Crime, Sentencing Commission, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Statewide Anti-Bullying Strategy Set for Expansion

By Robert Ross

05/18/2011

Rep. Austin Badon’s (D - Orleans) HB 112 seeks to prohibit the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of students in Louisiana’s public school districts. The proposal would strengthen a 2001 law that mandated all Louisiana public schools include a policy in their student code of conduct to prohibit bullying.

TAGS: Anti-Bullying, Austin Badon, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Penny Dastugue, Peter Sheras, Utterly Global

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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