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towns and cities of Louisana, USA
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Bossier Press-Tribune Online
April 28, 2018
The town has a current population of about 4,750. A city in Louisiana has more than 5,000 residents. “We are definitely on the grow,” Hicks said. “On our next census…we will be a city.” Crews have cleared 90 acres for commercial development along LA Highway 3227. Behind that is another 150 acresÃâà...
WWLTV.com
April 27, 2018
When it comes to paying for college the price tag can vary greatly, even within the same Louisiana city. Undergraduate tuition and fees at four-year institutions in the Bayou State range from $52,000 to $6,500 a year, according to recent figures published on their websites. Here's a look at those costs forÃâà...
The Daily Advertiser
April 27, 2018
When it comes to paying for college the price tag can vary greatly, even within the same Louisiana city. Undergraduate tuition and fees at four-year institutions in the Bayou State range from $52,000 to $6,500 a year, according to recent figures published on their websites. Here's a look at those costs forÃâà...
The Advocate
April 21, 2018
ST. MARTINVILLE — From a poem to a silent film to a maid who sells bread, the story of “Evangeline” has been a vital part of Cajun culture for more than 170 years even though it was the creation of a Yankee who never visited Louisiana. Now, filmmaker Jillian Hall is trying to capture the cultural impact ofÃâà...
BTCMANAGER
April 19, 2018
Mayor-president of Louisiana city, Joel Robideaux has urged the local residents of the city to launch their own Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in an April 12 speech. Mayor Expresses Faith In ICOs. This virtual currency proposal was by far the biggest reveal in Robideaux's annual address at the Heymann CenterÃâà...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
March 29, 2018
The tiny northwest Louisiana town of Haughton is an unlikely place to see a massive collection of wild animals from around the world. But years ago, a husband and wife team turned their taxidermy skills into the creation of a homemade natural history museum. These aren't the kinds of animals that typicallyÃâà...
The News Tribune
March 28, 2018
A Louisiana city has elected a woman to be its mayor for the first time. The Lake Charles American Press reports unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office show voters made history Saturday as Misty Clanton won more than 1,460 votes in DeRidder's mayoral race. The results show MikeÃâà...
World Casino Directory
March 22, 2018
Riverboat gambling could soon be coming to Louisiana's eighth largest city after a state politician reportedly revealed that he intends to propose legislation that would reclassify a section of the Ouachita River in order to make it more attractive to casino operators. According to a Tuesday report from TheÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
NEW LLANO, La. (AP) — The Louisiana town of New Llano has filled a vacant city council position. During a special called meeting on Monday, the council unanimously approved the appointment of Rev. Maurice Johnson to fill the unexpired term of former Councilman R. J. Fertitta, who resigned uponÃâà...
NPR
March 6, 2018
Robert Taylor isn't sure why he's alive. "My mother succumbed to bone cancer. My brother had lung cancer," he ticks them off on his fingers. "My sister, I think it was cervical cancer. My nephew lung cancer." A favorite cousin. That cousin's son. Both neighbors on one side, one neighbor on the other.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
December 31, 1999
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on his porch in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Otis Tucker cuts a lone figure on a street punctuated with large empty spaces - the shadows of homes lost to Hurricane Katrina. Tucker lives in the part of the Louisiana cityÃâà...
Coindesk
December 31, 1999
Joel Robideaux, the mayor-president of the Louisiana city and parish of Lafayette, urged local residents on Thursday to consider launching an initial coin offering (ICO). Lafayette parish is in dire financial straits, officials say. A presentation given by the town in March stressed that property tax revenues areÃâà...
CCN
December 31, 1999
The mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana has proposed the city create its own cryptocurrency to raise money for public finance, taking a cue from Berkeley, California, according to The Acadia Advocate. Such blockchain-based municipal borrowing, should it materialize, could revolutionize local funding in the U.S.Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
BY TERRY L. JONES, The Advocate. MORGANZA, La. (AP) — There was time when Inez Serio-LeCoq could buy all the items on her mother's grocery list from any number of stores and local businesses dotting a one-mile stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 in this close-knit Pointe Coupee Parish town. "We hadÃâà...
Louisiana Press Journal
December 31, 1999
The Louisiana city council will have a new look going forward under the command of a new mayor. New mayor Marvin Brown along with new councilmen ... Louisiana City Clerk Jesse Murphy swears in the new mayor and councilmen on Monday, April 23. The members are, from left: Bob Ringhausen,Ãâà...
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