Today's the first of four debates between incumbent U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and her challenger, state treasurer John Kennedy. The debate, hosted by the Press Club of Baton Rouge, will not be televised, but the other three will be.
Whatever the two candidates have in mind for their performances at today’s Press Club and subsequent forums before the Nov. 4 election, we pray for something better and more substantive than the degrading series of television ads and Internet attacks that we’ve seen so far. ...
Would it be too much to ask that candidates stick with fundamental issues in their debates?
We believe the next senator has serious issues to face.
How is Louisiana to deal with hurricane devastation and remaining funding needs from the federal government? What is the state’s future economically as we bleed college graduates to more prosperous areas? How should a congressional delegation deeply split by party and personality differences find common purpose? What is the balance between allegiance to national party agendas and Louisiana’s needs? ...
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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