Open dialogue: The city-parish will continue its community conversations on policing tonight. The second of two public meetings will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in meeting room 9 at the Raising Cane’s River Center Exhibition Hall, located near the St. Louis Street entrance. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. Synthia Taylor, regional director of the Department of Justice Community Relations Service-Southwest Region, will lead the conversation. Topics to be discussed include community policing, police accountability, body cameras, police civil service rules, training, recruitment, retention, pay incentives and residency requirements. Get more details.
Landed: Anthony Marino, who resigned as Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport aviation director last month after 21 years on the job, is joining G.E.C. Inc.’s senior leadership team as the company’s vice president of business development in its aviation division. G.E.C. is a national engineering firm specializing in transportation, environmental, planning, coastal, infrastructure and aviation development. In his new position, Marino will be responsible for developing new business opportunities and creating customized solutions for aviation clients.
Adding on: Dallas-based Covey Park Energy has acquired roughly 139,000 acres in the Haynesville/Bossier shale areas of north Louisiana and east Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release released by the independent oil and gas and exploration company this morning. The leases are primarily located in DeSoto, Bossier and Sabine parishes in Louisiana, and in Panola, Nacogdoches and San Augustine counties in Texas. The leases have an average net production of 35 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. Covey Park is one of the largest acreage holders and producers in the Haynesville/Bossier shales.
