Something was different as I crossed over Burnside, heading west on Hwy 30 yesterday for a lunch meeting, but I could not quite pinpoint it. A daily commuter on the busy roadway, most of its parcels blending into a quotidian background of white noise, the mundanity present only in the subconscious. But something was different, […]
Residential development booms in Gonzales as it languishes in Ascension
12/05/2023 by
It has been 29 months since the last residential subdivision plat was considered by Ascension’s Planning Commission. A ten-month moratorium in effect from mid-July 2021 through May 2022, stringent regulations added to the Unified Land Development Code in the interim, interest rates rising to levels unseen in two decades combined to stifle subdivision development in […]
Resolution to replace Prevost Hospital Board members adopted, court case to follow
11/22/2023 by
On Tuesday the Parish Council, as governing authority, unanimously voted to remove all five members of West Ascension Parish Hospital Service Board by resolution that included the appointment of five replacement members. The lengthy resolution contained 17 allegations intended to satisfy a requirement that “cause” be present to justify removal, that removal requiring a two-thirds […]
Ricky Compton appointed Ascension’s Infrastructure Division Director
11/03/2023 by
Announced yesterday, Parish President Clint Cointment has promoted Ricky Compton to Infrastructure Division Director effective November 6, 2023. The position, created in October of 2017 and immediately filled by the former parish president’s hiring of William Daniel, has been vacant since the end of 2019 when he was not retained by the incoming Cointment administration. […]
Two ordinances introduced in furtherance of sewer agreement with NWI
11/02/2023 by
Decades in the making, Ascension elected officialdom has grappled with compliance issues in the wastewater treatment field after losing control of its water supply all those years ago. Nothing so threatened to bankrupt the parish as the prospect of a regulatory Sword of Damocles falling at the whim of Louisiana DEQ or, worse yet, the Environmental Protection […]
Council adopts ordinance for property purchase to facilitate Conway subdivision pumps
10/30/2023 by
In September East Ascension Drainage Commission, consisting of ten Parish Council members sitting Ex Officio by virtue of that status, resolved to purchase eight acres necessary to facilitate a pump station on Panama Canal. The pumps are included in the second of two phases engineered to address drainage issues stalling development of Conway Subdivision in the City […]
Cointment wins reelection with largest vote share of any Parish President
10/15/2023 by
To borrow a descriptive from the second place finisher in Saturday’s election for Ascension Parish President, the Cointment Juggernaut Political Machine rolled on. Like the only other parish-wide election on the ballot, Parish President Clint Cointment won a second term with the largest vote share of any candidate in Ascension’s history of Home Rule. His opponent […]
Clerk of Court Hanna on why Hand-counted Paper Ballots is a bad idea
10/14/2023 by
“Louisiana does not rank highly in many areas, but we are known and recognized for our election processes,” proudly declared Clerk of Court Bridget Hanna. “It would be dreadful to allow our extraordinary election process, built over many years, to be thrown out because of unfounded theories from a few people with little or no […]
No water source (nor electricity) to Dutchtown spray park, Casso calls out engineer
10/11/2023 by
The minimum number of to achieve a quorum, six Ascension council members bothered to attend Tuesday’s Finance Committee meeting (we applaud the absentees because the less this council does through the end of 2023 the better). Five of the six attendees did not qualify for reelection (putting the “lame” in lame-duck), all of whom joined […]
Varnado out to slaughter the oldest hog at Ascension’s trough
10/06/2023 by
No Ascension Council candidate has more skin in the game than Todd Varnado, as he attempts to slay the dragon (or the oldest council hog at the trough) in a largely self-funded campaign to oust five-term incumbent, Dempsey Lambert. An old dog incapable of changing his spots (to mix a metaphor), putting this mutt down is […]
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