In March, area voters will head to the polls to vote in the presidential preference primary and to elect state and parish political party leadership for the next four years.
Democratic Presidential Nominee
President Barack Obama is being challenged by three lesser-known Democrats for his party’s nomination and Louisiana’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention being [...]
After taking the oath of office from Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine “Kitty” Kimball, the members chose District 8 State Senator John Alario (R-Westwego) as the new Senate President.
The complex is part of part of a Federal City master-planned community designed to retain 1,600 existing jobs and create 400 new jobs in the short term, as well as attract thousands more in the future.
Emergency Operations/911 Center Opens at Hurricane Season Start
BY FRANK J. BORNE, JR.
Parish officials quickly learned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that the Emergency Operations Center located on Ames Boulevard in Marrero was rather outdated and not designed to handle major natural disasters. In the storm’s aftermath, planning began in earnest for the construction of a [...]