City to steer major improvements at New Orleans Regional Business Park
The New Orleans Regional Business Park is poised for a major economic development project, but it won’t involve the board of commissioners whose mission is to undertake such work.
View ArticleBill would allow for sheriffs’ pay raises
BATON ROUGE — A proposal that would give Louisiana’s sheriffs an opportunity for a salary boost next year has started moving ahead in the state Legislature. A Senate judiciary committee backed the...
View ArticleOpinion: Building better boards
There are a number of certainties in Louisiana: sultry summers, good food at virtually every turn and politics so pervasive that they infiltrate bizarre arenas such as cosmetology and taxidermy. This...
View ArticleSheriffs’ pay raise bill nears final passage
BATON ROUGE — A proposal that would give Louisiana’s sheriffs a pay raise opportunity is near final legislative passage. New Orleans Sen. J.P. Morrell’s bill would create an “executive management...
View ArticleHospitality zone clings to life as political differences emerge
An argument over resources, and who should allocate them, led to the apparent demise of the proposed New Orleans Hospitality Zone this week. The history was short but eventful for the proposal to...
View ArticleState lawmakers address lead hazards at playgrounds, schools
BATON ROUGE — Three bills focused on identifying lead contamination in playgrounds, day care centers and schools have been making their way through the Legislature following studies that found...
View ArticleAnalysis: Exceptions to ethics law have local lean
Two new laws that loosen hiring practices at Jefferson and St. Tammany parish hospitals are based on exceptions to ethics laws that already exist in smaller parishes, where qualified medical staff and...
View ArticlePost-Katrina New Orleans school firings wrongful
Thousands of New Orleans school employees were wrongfully fired after Hurricane Katrina scattered the populations and shut down the city and its schools, a Louisiana judge ruled today. Judge Ethel...
View ArticleJustice rejected deal to name next Louisiana Supreme Court chief
Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson told a panel of state lawmakers today that her colleagues don’t have the authority to decide who is entitled to become the court’s next chief justice....
View ArticleTypos torment efforts to revamp business park
Mistakes doomed a bill to reconfigure the park's board of directors and a city proposition that would have put a property tax issue before voters in November. But the controversial overhaul efforts are...
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