With Bruce Conque stepping down from his District 6
city-parish council seat effective Oct. 1, the search is already on to name his
successor. The council will have 15 days from Conque’s last day to appoint a
replacement. The council’s appointment will serve some seven months until a
special election can be held next spring to determine who will fill out the
remainder of Conque’s term. Whoever the council appoints in interim will not be
allowed to run for the seat in the special election, according to the
city-parish home rule charter. Council Chairman Don Bertrand says anyone who is
interested in being appointed as an interim District 6 council member should
send a letter of intent and resume to clerk of the council Norma Dugas.
Applicants must be 18 years of age and registered to vote for the past six
months within District 6. “It’s not my job to choose who District 6 wants to
represent them,” Bertrand says. “It’s their choice in the spring. What we’re
going to do is just try and see who wants to serve in the interim and we’ll
pick someone who’s got the community’s interest in mind.”
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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