More evidence that Lafayette will continue to ward off the bad economy still plaguing much of the nation: The Hub City comes in at No. 8 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 10 best cities for new jobs.
To arrive at its list, Forbes enlisted Manpower, an employment services company, to survey 28,000 employers in the nation’s 201 metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Manpower measured the percentage of companies that expect to hire in the fourth quarter of 2009 as well as those that expect to fire workers to arrive at a net employment outlook. In Lafayette’s case, 16 percent of employers expect to hire new workers in the last three months of ’09 versus 9 percent that anticipate layoffs, giving Lafayette a net employment outlook of +9 percent.
... written by Solutions? , September 18, 2009 - 06:04 pm
I wonder if this will silence any of the LCG detractors. This is, without a doubt, a result of the work of the local people and local legislators.
... written by Hmmm. , September 18, 2009 - 07:21 pm
Without a doubt? Really? I am sitting here pondering that "Without a doubt, Lafayette being one of the 10 best cities for new jobs is a result of the work of LCG". I have a little doubt - I agree with you on the people however. Any examples of the LCG work that put Lafayette on the list?
Note: I do think LCG does a decent job the majority of the time.
... written by IMJacquemo , September 18, 2009 - 08:20 pm
If they are calling it good here, it must be really bad elsewhere.
... written by Proactive Solutionist , September 18, 2009 - 08:46 pm
Nope. Detractors are rarely ever satisfied, as they think and act based upon ideology, rather than ideas. The only thing that ever happens is that the detractors simply become irrelevant over time, and a new crop of people grow up and into the scene. The detractors remain, foaming on OUR PUBLIC AIRWAVES, with their corporate TEA party photocopy-mass-produced picket signs.
Having said all that, once in a while, the detractors do hold opinions we should heed, if only someone to thoughtfully debate their position would arise. One may say, they help prevent the equally destructive effect of the "echo chamber" wherein one set of ideas, left unchallenged, veer far off into a line of thinking not originally contemplated. But usually the detractors are a bunch of NIMBY know-nothings, who only think in the individual selfish-interests, rather than in the interests of our overall community. Often this is due to the mainstream thinking not being drastically different than the detractors, and the solutionists are failing to communicate effectively with those on the margins who would be open to better ideas. The detractor know nothings derive benefits of a community, but are not willing to pay for them, or share them equitably.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , September 18, 2009 - 11:48 pm
TO SOLUTIONS & PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS; I am an "EMPLOYER". I HAVE SPOKEN TO MANY OTHER BUSINESS OWNERS AND TO WAITERS, WAITRESS, ELECTRICIANS, PAINTERS, PLUMBERS. AS FOR "MANPOWER" HAH! DEM GUYS WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO PRAY". FIGURE THIS ? ITS LIKE THE DUCKS THAT FLY HERE FOR THE WINTER.THEY LEAVE WHEN THE PARTY IS OVAH ! THE UN-EMPLOYMENT RATE IS ESCALATING/ THE ILLEGALS ARE LEAVING, THE PARTY> THE PARTY IS OVAH ! GET A GRIP AND HOL ON ! YOU GONNA GET THE STRAIGHT SKINNY FROM THE NORTHSIDIAN. HE HAS RESORTED TO PUMPING HIS OWN GAS.THANKS TO STANFORD, VIA "TIFFANY A LA CARTE" "MISS HENDASUN LEVEE PAGEANT", THIRD RUNNER-UP! MAY,I REMIND YOU THERE WERE "DETRACTORS AT THE "BOSTON TEA PARTY" ALL FOR THE WRONG REASONS. THE BRITS WERE STICKIN IT TO US THEN,THAT WAS BEFORE WE FOUND WE COULD STICK IT TO OURSELVES.WE FOUND IT WAS MORE PROFITABLE AND WE COULD KEEP THE PROFITS HERE " OUR GUVEMUNT GAVE THIS PRACTICE A NAME " STIMULATING THE ECONOMY "SO YOU SEE WE NEED THE DETRACTORS,BENEFACTORS,AND MANIPUFACTORS SUCH AS ALL YOU PROACTIVE SOLUTION-SUCKACTORS.JEEZE,YOU ON SOME BAD STUFF ! YOU WIRED CROSSWAYS>
... written by Lard of the Rings , September 19, 2009 - 03:33 am
I'm moving to Waco.
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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.
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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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