While most of the national media has moved on from its coverage of Hurricane Gustav, the New York Times today has a story about the continued power outages in Baton Rouge. Reported by NYT New Orleans bureau chief Adam Nossiter, with help from Independent Weekly contributor Jeremy Alford, the story outlines how nearly a quarter of customers in the capitol city are still without electricity, over a week since Gustav blew through the state. “It’s sort of paralyzed the economy of the state,” Foster Campbell, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and former contender for governor told the NYT.
Campbell is focused on the “unacceptable” job Entergy is doing. The utility company says they cannot guarantee the entire city will have power before the end of September. Above ground power lines generated discussion, both by legislators and citizens. Senator Mary Landrieu is cited talking about enacting legislation to help government strengthen power lines, perhaps by encasing them in reinforced pipe. Meanwhile, in today’s Advocate, there are two letters to the editor, asking why power lines can’t be buried in the same way gas, water and sewer lines are.
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.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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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