Where to begin? With the shortest agenda in some time, dominated by four Committee Recommendations, Thursday’s Parish Council meeting in Donaldsonville lasted nearly three hours and digressed to a finger- pointing, free-for-all magnifying the dichotomy of east versus west bank Ascension Parish. Recreation’s recommendation to authorize a west bank vote to reallocate sales tax funding […]
Bill Roux: “We will be suggesting no fill in a floodplain!” Hints at moratorium.
10/06/2016 by
Is it possible the powers that be in Ascension do not know where the floodplains are in the parish? On Monday un-ratified Public Works (he doubles as Drainage) Director Bill Roux told East Ascension Drainage Board that a report on Floodplain Management would be prepared. His promise to push for elimination of fill by new […]
Attorney General’s short answer to Ascension’s Planning Commission
05/23/2016 by
Attorney General Jeff Landry just released a summary of his offices’ Opinions from May 9-13, including #16-0011 in response Ascension Parish’s request to clarify powers of the Planning Commission. The entire summary, devoid of jurisprudential analysis, reads: Pursuant to La. R.S. 33:101.1, the Ascension Parish Planning Commission has the authority to deny an application seeking approval […]
Candidate for Parish President responds to Tommy Martinez, thanking him for service
11/05/2015 by
EDITOR’s NOTE: Long claiming that he would endorse no candidate to succeed him, Parish President Tommy Martinez accused an unnamed “candidate” of “numerous falsehoods, half truths and outright lies” in a local weekly newspaper advertisement hitting the streets on Thursday. Martinez has consistently said that, when asked, “I will tell people I’m voting for Kenny […]
Martinez concedes defeat on purely public sewer
03/29/2015 by
The realities of Ascension’s push toward parish-wide sewer have set in and certain elected officials, a lame duck parish president among them, have concluded that only a public/private partnership might realize the lofty ambition. Parish President Tommy Martinez told four members of the Utilities Committee as much last Wednesday. And then there is that $60 […]
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