Even before its officially under way, Louisiana’s 2010 Senate race, featuring incumbent Sen. David Vitter, is fast becoming a national focal point of the midterm election cycle. With recent insider reports that the Democrats will be fielding a formidable challenger, aside from a porn star that is, to sex-scandal plagued Vitter, the race has been moving up the charts of political insider’s elections to watch. Nate Silver’s political blog, fivethirtyeight.com, has moved the race up to No. 10 on its list of Senate seats that could likely see a change in party. The Cook Report is also keeping tabs on the race, and has Louisiana listed as a pink state, for “leaning Republican.”
Vitter’s most likely opponent appears to be U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, but Shaw Group CEO Jim Bernhardt has also expressed interest in the race. (John Maginnis reports the two are currently in discussions about one of them stepping aside for the other). Polls show Vitter with a slight lead on either. Vitter also has $3.2 million in the bank for his re-election.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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