It looks like the nasty campaign to fill the city’s 93rd state House District seat will end Saturday without a single face-to-face meeting between the runoff candidates, former television news anchor Helena Moreno and fair-housing activist James Perry.

On May 8, St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 12 received a beam from the World Trade Center in New York; a relic of the terrorist attacks that killed several thousand – including more than 100 firefighters – on September 11, 2001. Now, the Fire District wants to utilize the beam to form a permanent memorial to fallen firefighters everywhere.

With no debate and a jubilant roar of approval from hundreds of supporters and staff Thursday night, Trey Folse was named the next superintendent of the St. Tammany Parish Public Schools System by the 15-member School Board.

1012 Magazine’s recent cover story, “50 Companies We Can’t Do Without,” names seven St. Tammany-based business entities among the featured enterprises.

SLIDELL — From the first day in 2008 when he agreed to direct the campaign of Randy Smith for police chief in Slidell, James Hartman understood the challenge facing him.

Smith was a virtual unknown in the Slidell political world, and Hartman was handed the task of building Smith’s name recognition to the point of winning one of the two highest ranking public positions in the city.