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If only the Left were as tolerant as they demand of the rest of us.

The council voted at a special meeting on Wednesday night to lift a moratorium that was blocking the Covington Trace Ridge apartments from moving forward. Now. the developer, HRI Properties, can apply for permits to being construction.

The St. Tammany Parish Council is proposing to take fiscal control away from the parish Coroners Office, in a move the council says is motivated by “good government” practices.

After more than six months, the St. Tammany Parish Council finally ended their investigation into Parish President Mike Coopers handling of a controversial apartment complex on the outskirts of Covington — with no findings of any wrongdoing.

The last parish council took parish president Mike Cooper to task over his administration’s handling of permits for the Covington Trace Ridge apartments near Covington. The new council, with its nine new members, opted not to close the last council’s investigation.

If there was a prevailing theme in last fall’s political campaigns in St. Tammany Parish, it was the need for the Parish Council and the parish president to get along.

Cooper was sworn in for his second term alongside a vastly different parish council from the one he worked with -- and against -- for the last four years.

The Covington City Council is losing two members to the St. Tammany Parish Council. It will take two special elections to fill their seats.

Voters in St. Tammany Parish put the finishing touches Saturday on what will be a vastly different Parish Council when its members are sworn into office in January.

There will be plenty of new faces on the council, no matter how the parish votes. But the final lineup will be determined by the November election.