From boondoggle to boon: One year after Ascension Parish took over as the owner and manager of the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, the facility is operating with a surplus.

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    Some people dubbed the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center a boondoggle. A shameful waste of taxpayer dollars. A business that government had no business being in. But in its first year of operation under the …


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