Last week, KPLCTV in Lake Charles got word that its in-studio 7th Congressional District debate will be short one candidate. The station, which is partnering with Lake Charles’ American Press for the Oct. 29 debate, plans to continue to hold the forum without Congressman Boustany. KPLC news director Scott Flannigan said he could never get a commitment from Boustany’s office as to whether he would be able to attend until last week when Boustany Chief of Staff Jeff Dobrozi told him the Congressmen would not be able to attend due to other longstanding planned commmitments. Flannigan says when asked what those commitments were, or whether Boustany would be avialable any time to tape responses to questions, Dobrozi simply repeated that the Congressman has other longstanding planned commitments. KPLC’s debate will now go on with the District’s two other candidates, the U.S. Constitution Party’s Peter Vidrine and Democratic state Sen. Don Cravins Jr. The candidates have already debated in three other forums, with Boustany, held in Lake Charles, Lafayette and Opelousas.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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.
Subscribe to this comment's feed