Former hair-trigger teacher trumped by Third Circuit
The Third Circuit Court also shot down an appeal by a former Lafayette public-school teacher canned in 2007 after admitting to threatening to shoot her principal and a counselor. In a ruling issued this week, the Third Circuit judges sided with a Lafayette judge’s dismissal of Mary Margaret Alexander’s lawsuit against the Lafayette Parish School Board, which approved Alexander’s firing following a recommendation by then-Superintendent James Easton. Alexander had filed suit against the LPSB seeking reinstatement and back pay.
According to court records, Alexander was employed as a teacher’s assistant at Lafayette Charter School when, fuming following a reprimand by Principal Lawrence Lilly, told another teacher, “I should bring a gun and shoot off their f***king heads. I’d rather not have to do that. What I’m saying is if they made me mad enough, I would.” That’s according to the teacher Alexander made the remark to. The unnamed second teacher sent Lilly a letter detailing Alexander’s comments, and, according to the Third Circuit’s opinion, Alexander admitted to Lilly that she had made the comments but denied she ever intended to act on them.
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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