Tonight will be the first opportunity many voters in southwest Louisiana will have to see the 7th District Congressional candidates square off face to face. KATC TV3 will be airing the debate live at 7 p.m. All three candidates - Two-term incumbent Republican Charles Boustany, Democratic state Sen. Don Cravins Jr. and Eunice businessman and U.S. Constitution Party candidate Peter Vidrine - will be participating. KATC anchor Hoyt Harris is moderating. The event is the second of three scheduled forums between the candidates and the first to be televised. A debate next Wednesday in Lake Charles will air on KPLC. With less than two weeks to go until election day, the stakes are high for the candidates to begin making their final case to voters. The hour-long event is being held on the UL Lafayette campus at the Bayou Bijou Theatre in the University Student Center and is open to the public.
Tonight also is the third and final debate between U.S. Senate candidates Mary Landrieu and John Kennedy. That debate also airs at 7 p.m. on KLFY TV 10 and KPLC channel 7.
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.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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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