Jim Bernhard, former president of the Shaw Group, says his private equity firm is willing to finance the cost of a new bridge over the Mississippi, and estimates the project would take about seven years to complete. Bernhard says the numbers look good for financiers investing in the project.
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But before the billion dollar project could be initiated, Bernhard says access roads and additional infrastructure leading up to the billion dollar structure will need to be approved.
According to a report by the Commonwealth Fund workers and their families in Louisiana are spending the largest share of their income on health care compared to the rest of America. Vice President for Healthcare Coverage and Access at the Commonwealth Fund Sara Collins says…
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has received 12 juvenile whooping cranes at the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge as they attempt to reestablish a flourishing population to the Bayou State. The state’s population of the bird at one point was as high as 10,000, but dropped to just one in the 1950s. LDWF Wildlife Biologist Sara Zimorski the birds will be released soon and expect to stay around the release area.
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Zimorski says when the project started in 2011, the bird was absent from the state. But they used to be here in large numbers.