Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne

Unchecked bureaucracy

An empty board room awaiting members of one of the 471 board, commissions and task force operating in Louisiana. (Photo by Justin DiCharia)

In Louisiana, there are hundreds of bureaucratic fiefdoms referred to as boards, commissions or task forces, for nearly everything — marriage and families, strawberry marketing, polygraphs, crawfish promotion, grandparents raising grandchildren, polysomnography (the record of a person’s sleep pat

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