A recent poll conducted by Research 2000 and the left-leaning blog Daily Kos shows Sen. David Vitter in a vulnerable spot as he prepares for his re-election campaign in 2010. The incumbent senator, who has yet to face voters since last year’s admission to a “serious sin” involving a D.C. prostitution ring, does still hold an edge over any potential competitors. In hypothetical matchups, the poll shows that if the election were today, Vitter edges Secretary of State Jay Dardenne 43 percent to 32 percent, Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon 48 percent to 41 percent, and former Democratic Congressman Don Cazayoux 48 percent to 39 percent.
More encouraging for the Vitter campaign is that two would-be Republican challengers recently announced they would not be entering the Senate race. Both former state Rep. Tony Perkins, now director of the Family Research Council in D.C., and former Congressman John Cooksey of Monroe say they will not challenge Vitter. Meanwhile, Democratic state Sen. Rob Marionneaux of Maringouin indicates he is seriously considering the race.
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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