Here come the carpetbaggers again, only this time they’re from Texas. The Times-Picayune reports that Louisiana oystermen are complaining that Texas oyster boats are capitalizing on Louisiana’s public oyster reefs, potentially overfishing a resource that they say should belong to those with Bayou State licences. To rub salt in the wound, Texas bars Louisiana fishermen from fishing their waters though a 2005 ban on the sale of new oyster licenses. While a Louisiana state law prohibiting anyone with a fishing license purchased after May 2007 to fish Louisiana’s 2,500 square miles of public oyster reefs went into effect on January 1, the consequences, fishermen say, are keeping new Louisiana oystermen from making as living. The situation has been exacerbated since Hurricane Ike disrupted much of the oyster industry in Galveston Bay, sending Texans into waters just recovering from Hurricane Katrina. It’s not just the problem of the tight knit oystering communities of St. Bernard Parish, where many of the reefs and docks are located. Oystermen say with overfishing, the season will close sooner, limiting diner’s access to our favorite topless bivalve.
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.
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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