A Vibrant Celebration: 2025 Lunar New Year at Mary Queen of Vietnam Church

The Mary Queen of Vietnam Church (14011 Dwyer Blvd., New Orleans, LA) hosted its annual Lunar New Year festival in honor of the 2025 Year of the Snake. Over the course of 2.5 days, thousands of attendees joined the congregation to relish in traditional Vietnamese food, dragon dances, interactive activities, live mainstream and cultural performances, and firework displays. Guests of [...]

Robert Wiygul and the Sierra Club continue the fight in a four-hour long hearing against Mississippi Power Co. to revoke the certificate granted by Mississippi Public Service Commission to the plant due to excessive costs.

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) โ€” Attorneys for Mississippi Power Co. and the Sierra Club spent nearly four hours in a Harrison County courtroom on Friday arguing about whether the economics of the power companyโ€™s Kemper County lignite plant make sense right now. The Sierra Club is asking Chancery Court Judge Jim Persons to revoke the certificate the Mississippi Public Service Commission [...]

State board pushes companies to get local approval for ITEP changes if they fall short on jobs

By Kristen Mosbrucker (Originally published in The Advocate 4/28/21) Businesses that fall short on requirements for property tax breaks under a state program will have to get letters from local taxing bodies favoring any amendments to existing agreements, a state board voted Wednesday. With economic repercussions from the global COVID-19 pandemic forecast linger for years, businesses might need to change [...]

Community members say New Orleans company owes millions on years-old improvements

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - A watchdog group and members of the community are asking why a major New Orleans employer is asking for a tax exemption on years-old additions made to their facilities. The watchdog group Together New Orleans says Folgers Coffee Company, with two locations in New Orleans East, should owe the city millions in taxes on additions [...]

Appellate ruling forcing Thermaldyne to disclose discharges into water upheld

A company that reclaims oil refinery waste may be required to identify the pollutants it wants to dump into the Intracoastal Waterway in West Baton Rouge Parish after the Supreme Court declined this week to hear an appeal from a lower court. The Intracoastal supplies drinking water to 10,000 people in nearby Iberville Parish and additional businesses. It ultimately flows [...]

Trump ends some protections for wetlands and waterways

The Trump administration on Thursday ended federal protection for many of the nation's millions of miles of streams, arroyos and wetlands, a sweeping environmental rollback that could leave the waterways more vulnerable to pollution from development, industry and farms. The policy change, signed by the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, narrows the types [...]
Translate ยป
Accessibility Accessibility
ร— Accessibility Menu CTRL+U