I live a few blocks west of Ryan Street on West Sale Road. McNeese athletes and pedestrians run and walk this street daily.

They rarely ever run with the traffic flow. The traffic is very heavy, and I fear an accident will happen any day.

What are street development plans for this area? Twenty-odd years ago I was told that all of Sale Road would be widened within six years.

Work was done on the intersection of Sale and Prien Lake roads in 2001, and Sale between Holly Hill and Nelson roads was enhanced in 2004, said City Administrator John Cardone.

Improvements to Sale between Holly Hill and Canal Street are being designed and will likely begin later this year, he said.

The project — paid for with 80 percent federal money and 20 percent local money — will feature two 12-foot-wide travel lanes, a 14-foot turn lane and 7-foot shoulders, Cardone said.

City officials have no “immediate plans” to widen Sale from Lake Street to Ryan, he said.

A final note: Roadside runners and walkers should move against the flow of traffic, while bicyclists should move with it.

Jindal can donate to state lawmakers

Is it legal for the governor to contribute funds to a legislator?

Yes.

But state law says that neither he nor legislators may “accept or deposit a contribution, loan, or transfer of funds or accept and use any in-kind contribution” during a regular session of the Legislature.

Additionally, the statute — R.S. 18:1505.2 — says the governor must wait until 30 days after the session ends before resuming campaign finance activities.

If the governor or a lawmaker receives contributions during the session, he must return them to the donors within 10 days of receiving the money. If not, the contributions will be considered “accepted,” and the state may impose a fine.

The penalty for “knowingly and willfully” violating the law is a fine of up to $500 for each violation. “Knowingly and willfully,” the law says, refers to “conduct which could have been avoided through the exercise of due diligence.”

Online: www.ethics.state.la.us.

Subject to change: Index on obit page

The Informer in recent columns has written about the redesign of the American Press, including the half-point reduction in the text size, and it has quoted readers who were upset by the changes.

On Wednesday a reader emailed The Informer to suggest a tweak to the format on the obituary page.

“Could y’all please revert to left-justifying the Obits summary (upper left of Page 2)?” reads the message, signed “an American Press reader of almost 60 years.”

“You’ll occasionally left-justify the text. That text is much easier to read, especially because so many peoples’ names spill over to a second line when the text is center-justified.”

Donna Price, the newspaper’s design editor, issued an email Friday to inform the American Press staff that the names in the obituary index are to now appear flush left, as the reader suggested.

The Informer answers questions from readers each Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. It is researched and written by Andrew Perzo, an American Press staff writer. To ask a question, call 494-4098, press 5 and leave voice mail, or email informer@americanpress.com

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