A local businessman's plan would move about 140,000 acres of Louisiana's only national forest into local hands. The parish unanimously said no — and now he says he'll try again.
The only public comment window on the 10,356-acre Sunstripe Solar project closes August 2, 2026. Here's the permit number, the address, and how to weigh in.
The England Authority's director says no incident prompted its proposed permit rules for protests at the airport — the nation's top deportation-flight hub. A sheriff's office request did; the text posts Wednesday, with a vote in August.
Treaty Oak Clean Energy — owned by funds tied to Cleco's co-owner, which also bankrolls a local data center — wants federal approval for a 16-sq-mi solar buildout on Rapides/Vernon timberland. No public announcement. The only comment window closes Aug. 2.
A utility-scale solar project in Louisiana doesn't get one permit. It runs a federal, state, and local gauntlet — and waits years in the grid queue besides.
You don't need a lawyer to comment on a federal permit — and the agency is legally required to consider what you send. Here's how to write one that counts.
The most consequential documents in government are written to be skipped: dense, gray, and buried where almost no one looks. But every one of them starts a clock. Here's how to read a public notice like a reporter.
Sometimes a billion-dollar facility never shows up on the tax rolls at all — because on paper, a public board owns it. Instead of a tax bill, the company writes negotiated checks. That's a PILOT, and central Louisiana is about to hear the term a lot.
A state board in Baton Rouge can excuse a factory, or any business, from most of its local property taxes for a decade. The money never touches the state budget. It comes out of your parish, your schools, and your sheriff's office.
Louisiana's Public Records Law gives any person of the age of majority the right to inspect and copy the records of state and local government, backed by the state constitution.
Huey kept a locked strongbox at the Roosevelt Hotel, filled with a cut of other people's paychecks. We keep one too. Ours is filled with something the people in power owe you: information.
The Kingfish Project publishes six kinds of pages — Investigations, Records, Meetings, Explainers, Briefs, and Documents — built on one rule: every claim links to a document you can check yourself.
An introduction to The Kingfish Project — and an argument that the most expensive thing Louisiana owns is its secrets.
Louisiana's only national forest sprawls across seven parishes. Here's how it got there, what it does, and how untaxable federal land still pays local governments.
