The small town of Urania in LaSalle Parish has landed a big sawmill that will create 110 jobs and an additional 300 indirect jobs. A joint venture by Hunt Forest Products and Tolko Industries will build a state of the art 115-million-dollar mill in the heart of the state’s 11-billion-dollar forest products industry. Mayor Terri Corley is thrilled they can use the former location of the old Louisiana-Pacific mill…
The mill will supply wood fiber and residuals to Drax Biomass, which occupies part of the property. The project will create 150 jobs when construction starts in April and is expected to be completed in early 2019. Corley hopes they can attract local workers who left after L-P closed…
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says he will not support what he terms a “knee-jerk” reaction to additional gun control laws in the wake of the Florida shootings. Kennedy opposes a bill to modify the existing back-ground check systems for firearm purchases because he says that system is broken.
Cut 6 ( :10…”doing nothing.”)
Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt has weighed in on her opinion of the secretary of state tom shelter sexual harassment allegations. Hewitt, in a statement this morning, says shelter should step down after his admission of an inappropriate relationship with a state worker that reported to him. She called the infraction “indefensible.”
LSU President F. King Alexander announced this morning the adoption of recommendations made from the “LSU Task Force on Greek Life.” Alexander took a hard line by adopting the policies and adding some of his own. Primarily the breakdown is in three sections…No more grey areas, Additional Transparency, and outside expertise.
In other words… any hazing means mandatory expulsion. Alexander says the implementation could be as soon as immediate or wait until the fall semester.