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At the end of August in Abbeville, SpaceX confirmed what half the state had been whispering about for months: a $100 billion Starship spaceport in Vermilion Parish, with as many as 10,000 permanent jobs. State officials called it the largest capital investment in Louisiana history, and for once that is not press releas
(The Center Square) – A Zapata County judge, his family members and campaign staff were served with search warrants as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud in the Texas border county. According to recently unsealed affidavits, an alleged pattern of voter fraud is being investigated in at least two Democrat
(The Center Square) — Louisiana could emerge as one of the biggest domestic beneficiaries of a U.S.-backed expansion of Venezuela’s oil industry, with refineries designed to process the country’s heavy crude and infrastructure capable of receiving massive oil tankers offshore. The Trump administration is pushing to sha
(The Center Square) — Some Louisiana Democrats who helped pass a massive data center tax break in 2024 now say they regret the vote or would have scrutinized the legislation more closely, after the incentive helped bring Meta and a wave of other projects to the state. House Bill 827 became Act 730 and authorized […] Th
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) to take several actions to ensure that property and casualty insurance is more affordable after proposing reforms in July. “The average annual homeowners’ insurance premium in Texas has risen 79% in six years. High insurance costs h
(The Center Square) — Louisiana municipalities dominate a new national ranking of local governments that rely heavily on fines and forfeitures, with seven of the 10 most dependent cities in the country located in the state. The Reason Foundation analyzed audited 2023 financial statements from more than 10,000 cities an
Difficult-to-explain political maneuvering by Monroe’s Democrat City Council majority potentially has put the city’s citizens in a tough spot. Last week, the Council again deferred action on a pair of master service agreements with two established engineering firms. Use of MSAs occurs commonly in local governments, and
All the fancy footwork in the world can’t hide the fact that as Bossier City plunges forward with creation of two new taxing districts it risks picking winners and losers among businesses and invites future elected officials to help themselves to increased tax collections. This week, the City Council approved the bound
(The Center Square) – Louisiana child welfare officials investigated more than 1,800 cases involving substance-exposed newborns last year. Now the state is expanding an effort aimed at connecting mothers and babies with services before families reach a crisis point. The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Servi
(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) – Energy developer ONE Nuclear announced Monday it has signed an agreement with a group of Louisiana landowners that secures a site for a 2.88-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant, battery storage system, and data center campus located between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Florida-ba
(Andrew Berrier, Real Clear Wire) — In his article “Arctic Eagle Sphere,” published on 17 August by Real Clear Defense, Travis A. Karnes supports President Donald Trump’s contention that Greenland “must be brought more firmly under U.S. control” to secure U.S. Arctic interests. He then outlines the growing threats pose
It’s possible that a taxing economic development district might be a good thing for the old part of Bossier City. But the plans presented for a pair of these that the City Council will vet this week make that impossible. The Council will consider in its first September meeting creating two such districts, with one […]
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