Fiscal cliff: Higher tax rates or fewer breaks? Analysts differ
WASHINGTON -- In the fiscal cliff wars, a pivotal battle is raging between Democrats demanding to raise revenue by boosting tax rates on the nation's highest earners and Republicans insisting on...
View ArticleMichigan lawmakers defy unions to approve right-to-work
LANSING, Mich. -- In an audacious flex of political muscle, Republicans in a single day reached the brink of a goal that for years has seemed an all-but-impossible dream: making the labor bastion of...
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Kenner, again, seeks New Orleans' help on airport taxis
Officials urge New Orleans to extend deadline for airport cabbies to equip vehicles with credit-card machines, satellite-navigation devices, surveillance cameras and functioning air-conditioning....
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Gulf of Mexico shrimpers hail House bill to heighten enforcement on imports
Gulf of Mexico shrimpers are hailing a House bill introduced Friday by the Committee on Ways and Means that includes a provision to increase U.S. Customs and Border Protection's powers to combat...
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New Orleans voters reject higher fees to operate 911 system
The new fee scale would have raised the monthly charges to $2 for residential land lines, $3 for commercial land lines and $1.26 for wireless phones. New Orleans voters overwhelmingly refused Saturday...
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St. Tammany Parish Council to consider lowering impact fees on developers
Home builders and other developers in St. Tammany Parish likely will be getting a belated Christmas gift next month in the form of lower impact fees that they must pay the parish government to offset...
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Supreme Court agrees to take up generic drug access issue while Vitter seeks...
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is pressing for legislation that would bar name-brand drug companies from paying fees to delay release of less expensive generics. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Monday...
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Louisiana economic development head criticizes enterprise zone program
Louisiana Department of Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret criticized the state's Enterprise Zone Program Monday, saying it no longer fulfilled its purpose of encouraging businesses to...
View ArticleKenner's Laketown would add 80 acres under annex proposal
Restaurants, live entertainment, retail shops envisioned Kenner is moving to annex almost 80 acres along Lake Pontchartrain as part of its plan to attract restaurants, live entertainment and retail...
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New Orleans taxicab drivers lose on all counts in federal appeals court ruling
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the city can enforce all of the new rules A federal appeals court has upheld, at least preliminarily, the validity of all...
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French Market Corp. Director Frank Pizzolato submits resignation
His resignation is effective Dec. 31 Frank Pizzolato, the public administrator who juggled the complaints and desires of French Market tenants for two years, has resigned. He will step down from his...
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New Orleans to seek proposals for redeveloping World Trade Center site
The city "is open to all types of proposals, imposes no limitations as to the type of redevelopment or use of the space, and encourages creative and innovative proposals." In another attempt to put...
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JEDCO director took discounted rent for local apartment from influential...
Jefferson Parish's chief economic development official accepted deeply discounted rent on an apartment from an influential business owner to comply with a Jefferson residency law but never lived in...
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Peters Road bypass crucial to oil industry, relieving traffic congestion,...
Construction is expected to begin in July on the $15 million Peters Road bridge and extension, a project officials in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes says is critical to supporting the expanding...
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No deal on fiscal cliff could cost Louisiana 28,000 jobs, university...
WASHINGTON - By now, you've probably heard the news that failure by President Barack Obama and Congress to reach a deal on the so-called fiscal cliff means higher taxes and spending cuts in both...
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Louisiana lawmakers move forward with $400 million bond-restructuring scheme...
State lawmakers authorized one of the final steps in a complex bond-restructuring scheme Thursday as they try to dig themselves out of a troubled refinancing arrangement that was used to upgrade the...
View ArticleCharter advisers seek advice, blogs on JEDCO, Aaron Broussard: Jefferson...
Jefferson Parish's Charter Advisory Board is seeking an opinion from the state attorney general's Office on which parish employees should fall under civil service rules. The Advocate has a...
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Airport cabbies' relief came amid pleas, threats from Jefferson Parish
Airport taxicab drivers obtained a 17-day extension on the deadline to install new equipment after a series of pleas and threats not only from their own numbers but from Jefferson Parish and Kenner...
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Ann Duplessis considered for interim director of French Market Corp.
Ann Duplessis could be trading her post within Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration for a more modest role in the public eye: interim executive director of the French Market Corp. Several French...
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Former New Orleans executive to become St. Tammany Parish's first economic...
Don Shea, the former CEO of the New Orleans Downtown Development District, will become St. Tammany Parish's first economic development director next month. Shea, who is currently executive director of...
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