Twenty-four hours' notice, an agenda described with reasonable specificity, and a public comment period before any vote. If a board skips those, what it did is voidable — and you don't need a lawyer's permission to say so.
An investigation into England Airpark, the economic development authority governing a decommissioned Air Force base in Alexandria, Louisiana. The district operates with its own board and its own rules, and answers to almost no one: records shielded by non-disclosure agreements, decisions made with little public notice, and a bad habit of ignoring public records requests they don't like. At stake is whether a public authority can keep governing in the dark.
One of the largest solar projects in Louisiana history — a 10,356-acre, 16-square-mile buildout by Austin developer Treaty Oak on timberland near Hineston, on the Rapides–Vernon parish line. It surfaced with no announcement, through a single federal wetlands permit. Kingfish tracks the permits it still needs, the environmental stakes, the tangle of Macquarie-managed ownership behind developer, utility, and data center — and the question no one will answer: who buys the power?
Applied Digital told KALB the finished data center would use 1,200 to 4,800 gallons of water a day. Two wells at the site had already pumped about 12 million gallons, and the state has no registration for either one.
Louisiana loosened its scenic rivers law twice this year — a five-year suspension on the West Pearl, and a new class of permits issued with no public comment.
A local businessman's plan would move about 140,000 acres of Louisiana's only national forest into local hands. The parish unanimously said no — and now he says he'll try again.
The only public comment window on the 10,356-acre Sunstripe Solar project closes August 2, 2026. Here's the permit number, the address, and how to weigh in.
A member-owned co-op serves 5,658 people west of Alexandria. It earns straight A's from the state, spends more than it takes in, and answers only to its members
Waterworks, sewerage, fire protection, recreation. Louisiana runs much of local government through boards nobody elects, with the power to tax, borrow, and set rates. Here is who appoints them and how to see their books.
"Public utility" is a legal status, not an ownership category. Here's who owns the water, power and sewer — and which owners the sunshine laws reach.
Louisiana's only national forest sprawls across seven parishes. Here's how it got there, what it does, and how untaxable federal land still pays local governments.
A utility-scale solar project in Louisiana doesn't get one permit. It runs a federal, state, and local gauntlet — and waits years in the grid queue besides.
You don't need a lawyer to comment on a federal permit — and the agency is legally required to consider what you send. Here's how to write one that counts.
Huey kept a locked strongbox at the Roosevelt Hotel, filled with a cut of other people's paychecks. We keep one too. Ours is filled with something the people in power owe you: information.
The Kingfish Project publishes six kinds of pages — Investigations, Records, Meetings, Explainers, Briefs, and Documents — built on one rule: every claim links to a document you can check yourself.
An introduction to The Kingfish Project — and an argument that the most expensive thing Louisiana owns is its secrets.
EEIDD answers to ICE for a facility that will hold children and women in federal custody. LaSalle controls the operation and the records behind its federal bills.
The England Authority's director says no incident prompted its proposed permit rules for protests at the airport — the nation's top deportation-flight hub. A sheriff's office request did; the text posts Wednesday, with a vote in August.
The England Authority is an appointed board that owns and runs the former England Air Force Base — now Alexandria International Airport and England Airpark — as a political subdivision of Central Louisiana. None of its ten commissioners is elected by the public; every seat is filled by appointment.
