This past summer the company announced over 1,000 job cuts and in September longtime executives Pat Bienvenu and Julio Naudin at The Daily Advertiser were laid off. In Lafayette, Gannett owns The Advertiser, The Times of Acadiana and the Quik Quarter, as well as the Daily World in Opelousas, The Monroe News-Star, The Shreveport Times and The Town Talk in Alexandria.
... written by Doris Matte , October 29, 2008 - 06:11 pm
Wow what a surprise. Maybe if the readers would get accurate unbiased reporting of the news and not liberal commentary disguised as news article this once enjoyable newspaper from Lafayette would not have lost so many readers and revenue.
Gannett to loses jobs written by shelton leger , October 29, 2008 - 07:20 pm
The paper has only itself to blame ..trying to follow the far left with it's news coverage and instead of sticking to news and not trying to force their view point on us..was about to cancel my subscription
le sigh written by ThrillaFromWasilla , October 29, 2008 - 08:32 pm
Commenting on a weekly message board doesn't really do much to express your disgust. Why don't you do something patriotic like burning an Obama sign?
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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.
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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.
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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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