The House Transportation Committee is expected to debate — if it can be called that — no less than seven pieces of legislation today that do nothing more than create new vanity license plates, change the designs of current vanity plates or alter the way other vanity plates are distributed.
There are bills on tap to create special license plates for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and “Gold Star Families,” as well as others honoring Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Another measure would change the current design of the existing Purple Heart Plate.
Most new license plates require at least 1,000 orders to remain on the books — and on cars — but that may change today. Rep. Karen Carter Peterson, a New Orleans Democrat, is pushing House Bill 569 to eliminate the requirement, but only for the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated prestige plates. Big surprise: Her official biography shows that she’s a member of the organization.
While it’s a big day for the transportation committee, its work is nowhere near done for the ongoing regular session, which ends in late June. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Baton Rouge Republican, has legislation creating new plates for Rotary members that has yet to be scheduled for a hearing.
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.
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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