Sheriff, Port of South Louisiana face lawsuit over $4M tax waiver for failed grain terminal
Hearken to this text The Port of South Louisiana and St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre are going through a lawsuit that alleges they illegally forgave hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in taxes owed for a now-defunct grain…
Grain Terminal within the Decrease 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’
On the east financial institution of the Mississippi River within the Decrease ninth Ward, the Holy Cross neighborhood isn’t any stranger to industrialization. Practically a century in the past, the close by Industrial Canal opened, connecting the river to Lake…
St. John Parish vote opens door to controversial grain terminal
On Monday night — after years of debate and court docket battles — the planning fee of St. John the Baptist Parish lastly voted to permit heavy industrial makes use of on a disputed plot on the parish’s rural West…