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.
Bernhard is hoping the legislature passes a ballot measure that will allow voters a direct say in funding for infrastructure projects that would be needed to complete the bridge.
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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The man wanted for the shooting of a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputy over the weekend was captured this morning in New Orleans. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto says they did not expect Tynonne Louis to go down easily when he was found at a bus station this morning by US Marshals, and says his crimes warrant a substantial amount of time in prison.
Lopinto credits the help of Crime Stoppers.