In the NEws

March 28, 2024: Bishop Wilfret Johnson guest column in the New Orleans Advocate: “Plaquemines officials sacrificing our water for LNG. Whom are they serving?”

Jesus once said, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst."

It was of spiritual sustenance that our Lord and Savior spoke, not what flows from the tap. Yet for four months, the people of Plaquemines Parish literally drank tainted water that left them with thirst rather than nourishment.

March 5 2024: Oakville residents on WWL News: “Oakville Residents band together against proposed zoning change.”

“We as a community are sick and tired of being pushed over,” Dwight Williams a resident of Oakville said. “This is the last time we are going to stand for it. We don’t want it, we don’t need it.”

Williams is talking about a request from Oakville Properties LLC to the Plaquemines Parish development board to change the historically black subdivision’s zoning district from Rural and Agricultural to General Commercial. It’s a move the residents say will bring major problems to their quiet community.