INFRASTRUCTURE
Opinion: Gov. Landry’s levee board power moves give off a ‘Musky’ reek
By Greg Larose
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
March 28, 2025
It has all the makings of history repeating itself — and in the worst way imaginable. You’re hard pressed...
March 26 Briefing Explores Lessons Learned from Super Bowl Infrastructure Playbook
March 26, 2025
More than 500 local infrastructure projects and repairs were completed in the leadup to Super Bowl LIX, eclipsing a...
Read BGR’s Statement on Flood Protection Authority Governance
March 20, 2025
The Bureau of Governmental Research issued the following statement today in support of the core framework for governance of...Katrina recovery leaders warn of flood authority issues after resignations
By FOX 8 Staff
Source: FOX 8
March 19, 2025
Watch the video of this new report. Read BGR’s March 20, 2025, letter to Governor Jeff Landry in support...New Orleans levee board members quit as Jeff Landry’s adviser pursues controversial changes
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
March 18, 2025
Three members of a board overseeing New Orleans area flood protection have resigned in protest over controversial changes being...Jeff Landry’s adviser wants to upend key post-Katrina reform at New Orleans flood agencies
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
March 6, 2025
A top adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the...
Quin Hillyer: Back home in Louisiana, where personalities and politics are bigger than life
By Quin Hillyer
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
February 1, 2025
Early 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Dorothy Gale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” though,...Gov. Jeff Landry’s adviser is reshaping New Orleans levee authority. ‘Look at Elon Musk’
By Alex Lubben
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
January 16, 2025
Behind the scenes, an unelected adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect...New Orleans secures funding for water treatment, drainage infrastructure
By Nolan Mckendry
Source: The Center Square via New Orleans CityBusiness
September 20, 2024
New Orleans’ drainage and power infrastructure has just secured funding for a much needed upgrade that will address the...
Jefferson Parish drainage system haunted by 2017 tax decision
By David Hammer
Source: WWL-TV
September 17, 2024
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Amid a simmering political scandal, Jefferson Parish voters bit the bullet in December 2016 and...