Lease lobbying, lot purchase in Monday's Jefferson Parish politics links
Behind-the-scenes lobbying intensifies in advance of the Jefferson Parish Council choosing, perhaps within weeks, one of three companies to least West Jefferson Medical Center and East Jefferson...
View ArticleNew Orleans property tax appeals hearings to start Sept. 13
Orleans Parish property owners who are appealing their 2014 property tax assessments will be notified by mail beginning this week. They will receive letters from the New Orleans City Council, acting...
View ArticleLSU-OLOL partnership brings with it expanded facilities, new medical school...
Gov. Bobby Jindal marks the expansion of the LSU Health Baton Rouge Urgent Care Center in North Baton Rouge with local lawmakers and health officials. LSU School of Medicine Dean Steve Nelson...
View ArticleTax abatement program in Algiers development districts to be discussed
The Mayor's Office of Economic Development and New Orleans City Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer will sponsor an information session next week in Algiers on the Restoration Tax Abatement Program....
View ArticleNew Fat City nonprofit focuses on Severn Avenue improvements
Pedestrian lighting, new landscaping, bicycle lanes and widened sidewalks with furniture are under consideration for Severn Avenue in the Fat City area of Metairie. Jefferson Parish officials also...
View ArticleJefferson Parish Performing Arts Center final agreement doesn't include all...
The contractor working on the controversial Jefferson Parish Performing Arts Center says a so-called "global settlement" to complete the project has not been executed nearly three months after the...
View ArticleHarahan to consider Colonial Country Club rezoning
Perhaps the most significant change in decades to Harahan's landscape comes before the Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday: the potential resubdivision and rezoning of the former Colonial Golf...
View ArticleColonial rezoning, arts center pricetag, Fat City's friends, more Jefferson...
Perhaps the most significant change in decades to Harahan's landscape comes before the Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday. It's he potential resubdivision and rezoning of the former Colonial...
View ArticleLouisiana's rate of public corruption convictions highest in nation, report says
Louisiana is the nation's most corrupt state if you count the rate of public corruption convictions of government officials in the last decade, the news website Business Insider reported Tuesday....
View ArticleCharacter letters portray Aaron Broussard bribe conspirator as good man gone...
U.S. District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown gave no indication of that she was moved by leniency arguments when she handed down a 20-month sentence for Bill Mack, the Kenner contractor who conspired...
View ArticleJefferson Parish hospital lease to be decided next week
The Jefferson Parish Council plans to select a company to manage both of its publicly owned hospitals a week from Thursday. Council Chairman Chris Roberts announced the schedule Wednesday, three weeks...
View ArticleHabana Outpost secures approval of Vieux Carre Commission
Developer Sean Meenan said just three words after the Vieux Carre Commission voted Wednesday to approve his proposed French Quarter restaurant, Habana Outpost: "It feels great." By a 7-1 vote, with...
View ArticleFEMA's high-risk premium guidelines described as disheartening by Cedric...
WASHINGTON - At the request of Louisiana congressional members, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wednesday issued flood insurance premium guidelines for people living in areas the agency labels...
View ArticleNew Orleans firefighters oust leadership of long-troubled pension fund
New Orleans firefighters appear to have delivered a resounding message of no confidence in the board that has been managing their long-troubled pension fund, voting to oust the full slate of trustees...
View ArticleOchsner's expansion, Harahan's delay, Kenner's agenda in Jefferson Parish...
Even as it competes to lease Jefferson Parish's two public hospitals, Ochsner Health System is taking over management of the publicly owned Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The change...
View ArticleJefferson Parish consultant won't recommend hospital lease suitor
Differences of opinion between the governing boards of East Jefferson General Hospital and West Jefferson Medical Center are not confined to which of three outside operators should lease the public...
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Home building permits on the rise in St. Tammany Parish; August best month...
Back in the boom times for home construction, it was not unusual for St. Tammany Parish to issue 200 or more building permits a month for single family residences. That was before the recession sawed...
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Louisiana treasurer: 19 noncompliant NGOs miss deadline, reported for debt...
When state Treasurer John Kennedy announced in July he was seeking to bring a group of NGOs into compliance with state financial reporting rules, he gave the organizations more than a month to turn in...
View ArticleLouisiana officials still figuring out impact of not complying with REAL ID law
State officials are still parsing the ramifications of refusing to comply with a national identification law that the federal government plans to start enforcing soon. Specifically, elected officials...
View ArticleOil-gas industry, local levee board clash over AG's authorization of board's...
First the two sides argued about the extent of the oil and gas industry's responsibility for loss of Louisiana's wetlands and erosion of its coastline, and whether the industry should pay for...
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