BR-NO passenger train project faces headwinds

BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | Capitol News Bureau Editor ​ ​ ​

BR-NO train: East Baton Rouge Parish Council members will soon decide whether to advance a long-hyped plan to run a passenger train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, Robert Stewart reports. But some members say the proposed train would unfairly avoid north Baton Rouge.

Mississippi River bridge: Gov.-elect Jeff Landry supports the buildout of a new Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area, a long-stalled, highly awaited project that will cost $3 billion to construct, Meghan Friedmann reports. 

Angola death row: The state Department of Corrections is using an old death row building at the State Penitentiary at Angola to house women in its custody, weeks after a judge declared the building unsafe for teens, James Finn reports. Some critics blasted the move.