DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 18 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas issued the following article on December 27, 2024, by Seth Dunbar and Kelly Klemme entitled "Eleventh District community banks outperform peers despite weaker credit quality." Here are excerpts: * * * Eleventh District community banks outpaced their peers nationally in profitability and loan grown during the first three quarters of 2024. However, loan growth slowed for both groups. Credit quality remains relatively benign despite   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 18 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Jan. 17, 2025: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced today that she is leading a multi-State coalition suing President Joe Biden's illegal ban on new offshore drilling. Back on January 6, just weeks after his party lost the 2024 presidential election--and two weeks before Inauguration Day in 2025--President Biden tried once again to accomplish much of what the Western District of L  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 18 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Jan. 17, 2025: This lawsuit challenges the Biden administration's decision to count illegal aliens when determining, under the Constitution, the number of congressional seats and electoral votes that each State is entitled to. The Constitution bars that approach--and regrettably, it has led to States losing seats and votes to other States with higher numbers of illegal aliens. "We shouldn't   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 18 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Jan. 17, 2025: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and a multi-state coalition against the Joe Biden Administration's last-ditch effort banning tankless water heaters. "For the past four years, President Biden and his bureaucrats in D.C. have pushed to control every aspect of our daily lives. They want to control how you cook your dinner, the way y  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued the following news release: ATLANTA -- Mark Foust, Regional Director of the National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf, announced today the appointment of Rebecca Lasell as the new superintendent for Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve and New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. Lasell will begin her new role on January 12, 2025, overseeing the two parks, which encompass six sites thro  more