WAFB is reporting that LSU could cut as many as 1900 jobs, including 500 at its main campus in Baton Rouge, unless the state makes drastic changes to its proposed funding for higher ed this year. In the face of waning revenues, Gov. Bobby Jindal has proposed cuts of more than $200 million to higher education. WAFB quotes LSU Chancellor Michael Martin saying the cutbacks are beginning to look more ‘realistic’ as legislators enter their final weeks of debating the state budget.
“We’ve tried not to go too far down that road because there’s no point in creating angst and tension among people until we know what the real story is,” Martin said. “But, I don’t think you can avoid the reality that the budget cuts of any significance at a place like this will come at the expense of jobs.”
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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