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Gretna officials launch new fight to save downtown post office
For the second time in as many years, Gretna officials are gearing up to fight a possible shuttering of the downtown post office. Mayor Belinda Constant said she received notice Wednesday that the...
View ArticleExpansion of food trucks gets OK from New Orleans City Council
A months-long legal struggle to expand the opportunities for food trucks to operate in New Orleans ended in apparently complete victory Thursday when the City Council gave 6-0 approval to an ordinance...
View ArticleNew Orleans, coastal lawmakers outspoken on levee board suit
While Louisiana's congressional delegation sought to remain largely neutral on the suit filed Wednesday by the East Bank levee authority against a slew of oil, gas and pipeline companies, state...
View ArticleLevee authority lawsuit: state lawmakers react
On Wednesday morning, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East filed an historic lawsuit demanding oil, gas and pipeline companies restore damaged wetlands and pay for weakened natural...
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Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo under Paul Candies to contribute $25,000 for ambulance
The late Paul Candies' affection for Grand Isle will help its Fire Department buy an ambulance. As chairman of the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, Candies was scheduled to donate $25,000 to the...
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Camellia Grill lawsuit seeks to block designation of South Carrollton...
The famed Camellia Grill building on South Carrollton Avenue has been caught in the crossfire of an escalating war between Hicham Khodr, the building's owner, and Michael Shwartz, the man who controls...
View ArticleRelaxed sign laws will help Mandeville merchants in road construction zone
Within hours of a city government waiver allowing temporary signs along a messy roadway construction zone in the heart of Mandeville, N'Tini's Restaurant manager Jerry Laciura was planting small...
View ArticleBobby Jindal, Scott Walker blast Obamacare in Wall Street Journal op-ed
Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Scott Walker of Wisconsin penned a joint op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday evening, calling for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as...
View ArticleOn the Hill: Cassidy targets EPA, Right to Life pushes Landrieu on abortion
Cassidy: Put new restrictions on EPA In the next several days, The House is scheduled to take up a bill by Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, which would require the Energy Department to block...
View ArticleIn food-truck debate, restaurants' attorney turns legal argument on its head;...
In recent weeks, debate over proposals to allow more food trucks to operate in New Orleans focused on a constitutional issue: Could the city legally create a protected buffer zone around...
View ArticleLayoffs rise, along with unemployment
The two Louisiana unemployment numbers came out on the same day, in unrelated data releases that couldn't have been more aptly timed. Civil service figures showed more than 3,800 state employees were...
View ArticleDavid Vitter, Mary Landrieu want Fugate promotion delayed until flood...
WASHINGTON -- Louisiana's two U.S. senators Monday urged President Barack Obama to delay promoting FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate to secretary of the Department of Homeland Security until his agency...
View ArticleGAO: $22 million in farm subsidies went to dead farmers
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Agriculture is having mixed results trying to stop the payment of federal farm subsidies to dead farmers, according to a new report by the Government Accountability...
View ArticleJefferson Parish restores price as factor in evaluating service contractors
That the legislative branch chooses contractors is "abnormal" on its face, BGR says, and the council's "nearly unfettered discretion" to disregard the committee recommendations creates "a fundamental...
View ArticleApplicants to redevelop World Trade Center site sounding more conciliatory on...
Despite rumors in recent days that two of the three groups seeking the right to redevelop the city-owned World Trade Center site at the foot of Canal Street were thinking of combining their seemingly...
View ArticleNew EPA administrator uses first speech to say reducing carbon emissions will...
WASHINGTON - Pushing back at critics of the Obama's administration environmental polices, newly sworn-in Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said cracking down on pollution...
View ArticleDavid Vitter signs GOP letter threatening government shutdown without repeal...
WASHINGTON - Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has signed onto a letter that threatens a government shutdown unless Congress votes to defund President Barack Obama's health care law. The letter to Senate...
View ArticleFormer World Trade Center building's future no clearer after 3-hour committee...
The future of the city-owned site of the former World Trade Center building at the foot of Canal Street remains a mystery. For three hours Tuesday, a five-member city selection committee listened to...
View ArticleFrench Market negotiation with new director hits a salary snag
Confusion over salary guidelines has delayed the French Market Corp.'s negotiations to make Valerie Rivers its next executive director. The corporation's board of directors selected Rivers from a...
View ArticleChemical safety legislation described as 'life or death' issue for many...
WASHINGTON - Sen. David Vitter, R-La., Wednesday strongly defended the chemical safety bill he negotiated with the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., accusing some opponents of playing politics. "I...
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