Des Allemands residents have long asked for it and will get it soon with the award of a $1.84 million grant for a new boat launch. “They’re funding the whole thing,” said parish Councilman Paul […]
Would narrow it to Washington representation Amid lingering disagreement among St. Charles Parish Council members over Tauzin Consultants as the parish’s lobbyist came the latest move to trim the firm’s contract. Councilmen Billy Woodruff and […]
St. Charles Parish’s share of the BP and Transocean settlements from the Deep Water Horizon disaster may not be large, but plans are to leverage those dollars into millions for flood protection. […]
Although St. Charles Parish officials don’t have a figure yet, they’re saying the parish will get a portion of the proposed BP Oil Spill $18.7 billion settlement with the federal government. […]
By John Maginnis
Here near the peak of both football and election seasons, it seems strange for a Louisiana senator to side with one from Alabama in a dispute in which Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration is agreeing with President Barack Obama’s. The odd bedfellows are hard to keep up with as negotiations with BP move toward a settlement of the federal case brought against it for the massive oil spill in the Gulf in 2010.
St. Charles Parish stands to receive some funding for the West Bank hurricane protection levee following the signing of the Restore Act earlier this month.
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