There’s no shortage of stories this week about the national Republican Party’s soul searching in the wake of Tuesday’s election losses. The inevitable question is, who will head the party’s ticket in 2012? One emerging figure on the party’s national stage is Louisiana’s young policy wonk Governor, Bobby Jindal. Today’s Times Picayune features a prominent story on Jindal's rising star and Fox News recently posed this headline question: "Is Governor Bobby Jindal the man to rebuild the GOP?" Fueling speculation is the fact that Jindal has been campaigning with other GOP candidates across the country this year and plans to be in Iowa - the first primary caucus state - to deliver a speech before the Iowa Family Policy Center later this month.
For his part, Jindal continues to downplay any speculation of a 2012 presidential bid. In an interview with WDSU, he says he intends to stay put. “I do plan on running for a second term,” Jindal says. “I have no intention of running for other offices.
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.
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