Why Should Louisiana Have Levee Districts At All?

Louisiana’s governor is proposing he take over all levee districts in the state with him doing the appointing. Board members of several large levee boards are crying foul, and charge that flood protection will suffer and emergency responses will slow down. Louisiana has twenty-three levee boards that cover the state’s waterways from the Arkansas border to the Gulf of Mexico. But here’s th...

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