Louisiana lawmakers have approved the state’s participation in a summer food program that could benefit approximately 594,000 impoverished children, over 2,800 of whom are in Lincoln Parish.
To hear Kevin Hicks tell it, as soon as he and his business partners open an extendedstay hotel, three eateries, and a dry cleaner in Grambling, the city’s economic development woes will be over — or at least considerably lessened.
In 2011, Congress ended federal earmarks. Ten years later, it brought them back. That decision to return to the old, though often controversial, practice, may be one of the best decisions ever made for the future of the city of Ruston.
Over the last five years, the city of Ruston has sunk more than $3 million into lease payments on the mostly empty Monster Moto building on South Farmerville Street.
