“Let’s let the elephant out of the room,” citizen/committee member Bill Dawson ended a torturous eight-and-a-half minutes of Home Rule Charter Revision obfuscation on Monday; divulging the worst kept secret in recent local political history. “The changes that we’re talking about today, almost all of them are influenced by whether there’s going to be a […]
Dawson “lets (ABA) elephant out of the room” as Charter Revision Committee ruse exposed
04/24/2018 by
Buzzard Roost property rezoned from Conservation to Industrial
12/22/2017 by
“My tax bill this year, for real estate in Ascension Parish, is roughly $280,000,” boasted Grady Melancon who sought to rezone 330 acres from Conservation (most restrictive) to Industrial at the final 2017 Council meeting on Thursday. “The average tax is $200 for a house on Robert Wilson Rd; just a comparison.” And a six-member Council majority played Santa […]
Matassa names William Daniel as Ascension Parish Infrastructure Division Director
10/12/2017 by
Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa is pleased to announce the hiring of William Daniel as the new Infrastructure Division Director. Mr. Daniel brings over 35 years of experience in engineering, executive management, and government to Ascension Parish. From 2005-2017, Mr. Daniel held key infrastructure and executive positions in East Baton Rouge City-Parish Government, including Public […]
“National Search” for new Infrastructure Director to last 4 DAYS
09/27/2017 by
Apparently what’s been missing from Ascension Parish Government, the panacea to cure what ails the parish where woefully inadequate traffic/sewer/drainage/water infrastructure threaten our sacred quality of life, is an Infrastructure Division Director. That’s why Parish President Kenny Matassa and his gang have launched a “nationwide search” to fill the all important position which does not […]
Roux blames “so much development” for drainage woes; Dawson alibis for Matassa at Sorrento meeting
07/26/2017 by
Bill Roux, fresh off his Parish Council ratification as Public Works Director (he’s also the Drainage Director), showed up in Sorrento on Tuesday to summarize drainage projects, both past and future, at the “Panama Conway Drainage Basin Public Meeting” hosted by Councilman Bill Dawson. Dawson, who also chairs the Council, seems to have assumed a […]
Controversial Planning Appeals Board sparks Council free-for-all
02/03/2017 by
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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