According to a recent Inspector General report, there has been a flagrant abuse of power taking place on the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. “After reviewing available documentation and conducting interviews” state investigators concluded that board member Donald G. Lambert, Sr., a Kenner contractor, delayed the group’s handling of an examination waiver because the applicant owed his son money. The report states that Lambert “personally requested that a staff member remove [Bruce Dalrymple’s] application” and later left a voicemail for Executive Director Charles Marceaux that the debt had been paid and he “would not object to the board granting Mr. Dalrymple’s request.” Since Lambert’s actions “may have circumvented state law and circumvented board procedure,” the Inspector General’s Office recommended that the case be forwarded to the state Board of Ethics for further investigation. In a lengthy written response, Lambert denies the allegations and says “at no time did I ever take any action which could be deemed unethical and/or improper.”
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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