Extra cash: The Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board’s July lease brought in $59,150 in revenue, The Associated Press reports. The board says that buyers bought two leases covering 294 acres in Calcasieu and Plaquemines parishes during the monthly lease sale, according to a press release. The lease sale offered tracts covering a total of 587 acres. According to the board, mineral payments to the state in the fiscal year that ended June 30 totaled $5.5 million.
Showing support: LSU football coach Les Miles has been visiting with law enforcement in Baton Rouge after an ambush by a lone gunman took the lives of three officers Sunday and wounded three others, The Associated Press reports. Miles had unannounced, private meetings Tuesday with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, which lost a deputy in the fatal shootings, as well as Baton Rouge Police, which lost two officers. LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette says Miles only wanted to express his support and discuss his appreciation for the courage police show in putting their lives on the line to protect their communities.
No more: Louisiana’s Department of Revenue says homeowners have applied for more solar energy tax credits this year than the three-year program can cover. The Associated Press reports the 2015 Legislature passed the program, with limits of $10 million for each of the first two years and a $5 million cap for the third year. It ends Dec. 31, 2017. A news release Tuesday says homeowners have applied for $39 million worth of credits, adding people who buy solar energy systems from this point forward should not expect to get the credits. Certified letters will notify taxpayers who couldn’t get money because it ran out. The claims are processed in order of the date each tax return was filed.
