Economist Elliott Eisenberg returns to Lafayette next week with a new economic impact study, including up-to-date numbers on the home building industry and its projected influence on the local economy. He will present his report at a luncheon lecture on Tuesday, March 20, at noon at The Lafayette Hilton, presented jointly by INDevents and The Acadian Home Builders Association.
Eisenberg, a senior economist for the National Home Builders Association, is known for his lively presentation style and respected for his depth of knowledge on the industry. Analysts everywhere use residential construction as a leading indicator of economic vitality, and though Acadiana has remained resilient amid the national economic downturn, home building is still an important bellwether of what is to come in 2012 and beyond.
Tickets are $40 per person or $350 for a premium table for eight. For luncheon reservations, contact Robin Hebert by email at
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or by phone at (337) 769-8603.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
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City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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