Will Sutton: Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett will rock New Orleans at Black power event

One of the world's most important elections is taking place next month, and no Louisianans will vote.

Last year, the GOP-controlled Louisiana Legislature passed and Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law the "Truth and Transparency in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System" during a special session focused on crime. After years of protecting youth offenders with confidentiality governed by the Louisiana Youth Criminal Code, Republicans decided that moving four years of juvenile court data into a single online system and requiring the online publication of court minute entries for children charged with violent crimes on or after Jan. 1, 2024, was the way to go.

I like Percy Miller's idea of a NOLA Walk of Fame.

Howard University in Washington, D.C., became the first historically Black college or university (HBCU) to reach R1 research status in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education this year. Eight Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) were also upgraded to this same R1 status.

Louisiana will see hundreds, then thousands, of members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. as they head from their southern Louisiana homes, from parishes across the state, from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas -- the four states that make up Omega's Mighty Ninth District. There will be Omega brothers from beyond this region, too, because nearly everyone loves visiting New Orleans.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the Republican supermajority state Legislature got a whooping in last month's election as a higher-than-expected voter turnout overwhelmingly rejected four constitutional amendments on the ballot, including Amendment 3. Only 34% voted yes to strip the state constitution of specific youth crime cases in which a child could be tried as an adult. Sixty six percent voted no. The defeat was across geographic, party and race lines.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is running two campaigns. She wants voters to reelect her this fall, and she's campaigning as three competitors aim to replace her.

The results of Saturday's election weren't a mandate.

Democrats across the nation are pissed off.

As a young senior, there are still things I want to do in life, but watching a state-sanctioned execution isn't one of them. 

Oliver Thomas is hoping that enough voters have watched him work for communities across New Orleans that they'll boost him into the mayor's office.

President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday night, getting more than 36 million people to watch. That's 13% higher than former President Joe Biden's 2024 speech (32.2 million), but lower than each of Trump's first-term congressional addresses (47.7 million viewers in 2017, 45.6 million in 2018, 46.8 in 2019, 37.2 million in 2020).

If ever there was an election to prove that every vote counts, it was the May 3 Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office millage election.

You may have never heard of Danilo Augusto Feliciano, but know that he's the man who questioned the report of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office millage two-vote victory.