Sara Cline

Covering Louisiana politics for @AP, formerly in Oregon. //Past: @report4america, @ExpressNews, @timesunion // Email: [email protected]

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree, who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat, was set to take office.

https://t.co/0iEMHhfyK6

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

Please read our incredible media writer @dbauder's final piece in his illustrious career at the @AP:

A photographer has captured some 50 newsrooms to document places and lives endangered by the industry’s collapse https://t.co/m3BMELtZl9

[Piper Hutchinson @ByPiperHutch]

The 2026 Louisiana Capitol Press Corps #lalege #lagov

[AP News Guild @APNewsGuild]

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Today, 40 Associated Press guild-covered employees across the U.S. who accepted buyouts left the newsroom for the final time. We’ve been told layoffs will be coming, with no clear timeline.

In solidarity, our members in office, at home, and in the field wore their union red today.

[Mike Sisak @mikesisak]

A hall of fame class of journalists is leaving @AP today — 40 reporters and photo/videographers who've taken buyouts as our US news operation shrinks. They've broken untold stories, captured searing images, held power to account and made us all smarter. We'll miss them dearly.

[AP News Guild @APNewsGuild]

AP journalists in the U.S. are on the frontlines providing essential news coverage and documenting history each and every day.

AP was there because WE were there.

But more than 120 AP guild covered employees across the country were offered buyouts on April 6, and layoffs could be coming. And that makes the guild wonder, will AP be there for you in the future?

We need your help. Tell AP leadership to support the stories that matter and the people that cover them. Comment on stories you care about on https://t.co/wSijsMnjaU and on AP social media posts. Text AP’s Signal at [phone].

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

Yesterday, travelers complained of hours-long wait times at the security checkpoint in the New Orleans airport.

Today, some travelers say it is smooth sailing. But in social media posts, MSY continues to urge people traveling Monday to arrive to the airport 3 hours early.

[Mitch Landrieu @MitchLandrieu]

I’m flying out of the New Orleans airport. Here’s how long it took to get through security.\\\
I just passed through security at airport. Lines are now down and flowing as normal. Thank you TSA and airport team. https://t.co/za8iAHDEpA

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

As Louisiana kicks off the 2026 Legislative Session, Gov. Jeff Landry tells lawmakers he wants to eliminate income tax in the state.

Currently, nine U.S. states have no state income tax on wages: AK, FL, NV, NH, SD, TN, TX, WA, and WY.

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

During his State of the State, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry tells lawmakers the Ten Commandments will be placed in schools this year.

He says students who don't read the commandments "will likely read the criminal code."

Here is our latest on the law
https://t.co/2uHC4YIBqx

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

The Department of Homeland Security officially launched an immigration crackdown in New Orleans Wednesday morning.

https://t.co/TwQgIxnDxH

[Rebecca Santana @ruskygal]

A monthslong immigration crackdown is slated to start in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi dubbed “Swamp Sweep.” My latest with @jack_brook96 and @SaraLCline https://t.co/vfHyO4n4jC

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

These photos of the father-daughter dance held at Angola, Louisiana's largest maximum security prison, are sort of overwhelming. I dare you not to cry. (Story from @SaraLCline)

https://t.co/9pfWvohNu0 #lalege

[Andrew DeMillo @ademillo]

Some exciting professional news.

I’ve been blessed to work with my amazing colleagues at AP over the past 20 years. I’m thrilled about this next chapter leading Arkansas Advocate’s incredibly talented newsroom.

https://t.co/wsxNlBMcsb

[Jack Brook @jack_brook96]

AP has new details on planned DHS operations in New Orleans called “Swamp Sweep”:

-250 CBP agents to be deployed for 2-months

-5,000 arrests across southeast Louisiana

-Command center at FBI office and using nearby naval base to store tear gas, gear

https://t.co/JI7KpiVCPN

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access. https://t.co/WZQJhNmoNX

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

BREAKING: Derrick Groves, the last of 10 inmates who escaped a New Orleans jail, has been captured in Atlanta after 5 months on the run.

Louisiana State Police say Groves was apprehended after a brief standoff.

W/ @JimMustian @jack_brook96
https://t.co/QogCtngKdh

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

Amid a wave of Planned Parenthood closures across the country, Louisiana's two clinics shuttered their doors Tuesday — ending medical services, education and advocacy the organization has provided some of the state's most vulnerable residents for 40 years.
https://t.co/jy3z5m7KBv

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

An incredibly powerful photo essay.

With the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one @AP photographer projected some of the most gripping images from the deadly disaster onto places and neighborhoods as they appear now.

https://t.co/UNrAzvZYyX

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital. https://t.co/F2U4K6ZOfh

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @AP. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.

https://t.co/dOPfQPfqj1