They build them fast and they price them to sell, and their cookie-cutter subdivisions are beginning to spring up on the margins of Lafayette, north and south. With relatively low unemployment and a robust economy, metro Lafayette was naturally a magnet for D.R. Horton.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Scott Eric Olivier. Remember that name. You’ll be hearing it a lot in the next few years.

Find out how this year’s Entrepreneur of the Year went from programming sounds for Michael Jackson’s planned final tour, rehearsing with the King of Pop just hours before he died, to his Nov. 15 announcement of a partnership with LUS Fiber that offers every subscriber up to 10 gigabytes of free data backup.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

LAGCOE welcomes its first-ever delegation from Russia. By Erin Z. Bass

Every other year, Lafayette hosts the country’s second-largest energy exposition. In 2009, LAGCOE featured more than 400 exhibiting companies and welcomed over 15,000 attendees. This year’s show, set for Oct. 25-27 at the Cajundome, has 394 companies scheduled to exhibit and is expecting visitors from 39 states and more than 20 countries.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
By Erin Z. Bass

Local tech experts say the future of data storage is in the cloud.