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New Orleans ends Lucky Dogs’ monopoly on French Quarter food pushcarts: report
The New Orleans City Council took action Thursday to end one company’s near-exclusive deal to sell food from pushcarts in the French Quarter, following a series of WVUE-TV Fox 8 investigations. The council voted unanimously to change an ordinance that’s been in place since 1972. That ordinance says the only way to obtain a permit […]
This Louisiana town runs largely on traffic fines, and the mayor is your judge
The village of Fenton, outside the oil and gas town of Lake Charles, covers only about 20 blocks. There’s City Hall. The library. One gas station. A small public housing complex. A Dollar General. A grain elevator. A Baptist church. Drivers headed to east Texas from central Louisiana go right through town, passing it all […]