President Bush is marking the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina a little early, with a 2:30 p.m. speech today at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans. The stop is part of a packed schedule that includes a morning visit to the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Orlando, Fl. and dinner in Gulfport, Miss. He’ll sleep back at his ranch in Crawford, Texas tonight.
The Times Picayune published part of an advance copy of the speech Bush will deliver:
“The story of your recovery is impressive. And it is the same story we see playing out across the Gulf Coast. Homes, businesses and schools are being rebuilt. Levees are being repaired. Families and communities are being reconnected. And from Biloxi to Beaumont, hope is being restored.”
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s response to Bush’s visit made clear that she was not satisfied with the White House’s promises to rebuild the city and the surrounding wetlands. “I hope that what he (Bush) hears is that the federal government has still not met its full obligation to Louisiana and to the metro area or southwest Louisiana, “ Landrieu told the TP.
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.
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.
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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