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David Mitchell

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News Reporter, River Parishes Bureau at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

The Baton Rouge Advocate, River Parishes bureau

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  • 1 week ago | annfammed.org | David Mitchell

    Family medicine residencies offered a record number of positions in the 2025 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for the 16th year in a row, and the specialty is poised to enter the 2025-26 academic year with the largest intern class in its history. More than 800 family medicine programs participating in the NRMP Main Residency Match filled 4,574 positions, according to results released March 21, 2025. That’s 21 fewer than a year ago.

  • 1 week ago | theadvocate.com | David Mitchell

    City-parish officials have agreed to pay state regulators $36,000 to settle old allegations that Baton Rouge's north sewage treatment plant failed to keep up with hazardous materials planning for chemicals it no longer uses. Through the fall of 2018, toxic and corrosive gaseous chlorine was used to disinfect around 21.4 million gallons per day of treated wastewater, until the city-parish spent $1 million to switch to a different method with safer chemicals, Baton Rouge officials said this week.

  • 1 week ago | theadvocate.com | David Mitchell

    The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major projects in its first master plan. Of the costs estimated, the plan could reach more than $3.8 billion. Bayou Manchac improvements: Cost $29.9 million, funded, dredging of Alligator Bayou and Bayou Manchac, realignment of Ward Creek, replacing Perkins Road bridge. Lower Amite sediment removal: $80 million, only lower portion funded from La. 22 to Lake Maurepas. Counteracts impact of diversion canal weir repairs (below).

  • 1 week ago | nola.com | David Mitchell

    An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said. Passed from successive owners for years, the Garden Island Bay oil well first drilled in late 1942 was capped a decade ago and held in reserve in hopes of future production, state oil and gas records show.

  • 1 week ago | theadvocate.com | David Mitchell

    New drainage pumps to the Mississippi River. Clearing out sediment blockages in the lower Amite River and snags and high spots in Bayou Manchac. Building a large, multibillion dollar reservoir somewhere in St. Helena and East Feliciana parishes or even southern Mississippi. The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency most tied to the long-running Comite River Diversion Canal, has aimed big with its first master plan.

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David J Mitchell
David J Mitchell @NewsieDave
6 May 25

Spewing oil well off Louisiana's coast brought under control, but cleanup remains. The feds have tapped $10M so far from spill trust fund https://t.co/QD5cm8qEba via @nolanews

David J Mitchell
David J Mitchell @NewsieDave
29 Apr 25

Big hearing today at Louisiana State Capitol on carbon capture and sequestration. Standing room only. Committee chairman says he expects to go to 3:30 p.m. recess and then come back later after House activity for more comment.

David J Mitchell
David J Mitchell @NewsieDave
29 Apr 25

Contractor tries to control leaking oil and gas well in Plaquemines Parish https://t.co/dAAdg7SVVH via @theadvocatebr