Alligators, Marching Bands and Almond Milk: Offbeat Legislation Up for Debate in Louisiana

By Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune

Louisiana is definitely its own place – and with that, it has its own set of strange legislative proposals. The stuff that makes the big headlines out of the state Capitol in Baton Rouge concerns taxes, state spending, criminal sentencing and more. But there’s also a lot of below-the-radar proposals too.