Lieutenant Governor Denny Heck moderated a panel explaining Governor Ferguson's Executive Order 26-2 creating an Economic Development Council charged with advising on infrastructure, workforce, energy and regulatory barriers; staff say the council is in early stages and will focus initially on energy and permitting.

The Queen Creek Town Council on Sept. 16 announced an executive session to seek legal advice and discuss Harquihalla Valley groundwater acquisition and delivery strategies, irrigation and water service obligations, and pending litigation involving Century Storage LLC.

The tech is ready for decentralization. The governance is not. This is the final post in a four-part series exploring decentralization not as a buzzword, but as a series of hard tradeoffs that digital infrastructure teams, architects, and strategy leads must navigate.

Participants discuss infrastructure and housing codes to tackle rural development issues.

Learn why cloud isn't always the answer. New research shows why dedicated servers remain essential for performance and compliance.

Council adopted Ordinance 5168 (6–0), creating a plan development overlay for roughly 190 acres called McMinnville Landing that sets design standards, transportation and utilities analyses, and limits on large retail tenants; staff said the overlay preserves industrial zoning while allowing mixed uses under a planned-development framework.

June has been a busy month for government policy announcements, with the Chancellor’s spending review, the release of the 10-year Infrastructure Strategy

The House Commerce Committee reported House Concurrent Resolution 66 favorably after lawmakers and Louisiana Economic Development officials described a plan to align agency programs, workforce training and infrastructure for rural parishes and added a requirement for a Jan. 1, 2027 progress report to the legislature.