Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announces as of May 31st, over 17 thousand homeowner insurance policies have been written by companies that took advantage of the Insure Louisiana Incentive Program. Jefferson, Orleans, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, and St. Charles are the top five parishes for new policies. Donelon says…
The federal government announces nearly 300 thousand acres in the Gulf of Mexico will be auctioned off in the first offshore wind lease sale on August 29th. Lacey McManus Director of Future Energy at Greater New Orleans Inc. says the business community has anticipated this moment
More than 102 thousand acres offshore from Lake Charles and two areas of about 100 thousand acres each near Galveston are under consideration.
Attorney General Jeff Landry is weighing in on the 56 clemency requests sent to the Louisiana Pardon Board from death row inmates. He says there are emergency circumstances like an execution date, but that doesn’t apply in this situation…
Cut 11 (11) “…follow the rules.”
Executive Director of the Capital Appeals Project, Cecelia Kappel says the pardon board can also waive its rules, including the rule that requests need to be filed within one year after the last denied appeal. She says that rule has been waived before in death penalty cases…