Blake Paterson
Jefferson Parish Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Jefferson Parish reporter @NOLAnews Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Blake Paterson
Three people were wounded in two unrelated shootings around the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival Saturday night, authorities announced early Sunday. The first shooting occurred around 9:25 p.m. near the festival's ticket booth at Ponchatoula Memorial Park, where deputies with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office found two wounded teenage boys. One had a graze wound to the leg and the other was shot in the abdomen.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Blake Paterson
Gov. Jeff Landry told West Bank business leaders that he supports the idea of building a new bridge between Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes, sparking hope among local officials that a project that has sat dormant for more than a decade will finally see movement. Louisiana began construction on the Peters Road bridge and extension project under former Gov. Bobby Jindal and spent millions of dollars on the first phase, building a new road in Plaquemines Parish. But the project stalled after that.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Blake Paterson
When Gov. Jeff Landry tapped W. Gray Stream last year to chair the newly created Louisiana Economic Development Partnership, the 45-year-old Lake Charles businessman was skeptical. In his years as president of the Stream Companies and founder of Gulf Coast Sequestration, Stream has seen plenty of boards and commissions attempt, unsuccessfully, to tackle Louisiana's many challenges.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Blake Paterson
CF Industries said Tuesday it plans to build a $4 billion, low-carbon ammonia plant near Modeste on the west bank of Ascension Parish, officially announcing a project that's promised over 100 jobs and cleared a key hurdle for industrial tax exemptions last year. Once its constructed, the facility is expected to export approximately 1.4 million metric tons of ammonia annually to international markets.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Blake Paterson
CF Industries said Tuesday it plans to build a $4 billion, low-carbon ammonia plant on the west bank of Ascension Parish, making it the second company in recent weeks to announce a major investment on a massive, undeveloped tract of land that economic development officials have long sought to industrialize.
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