The Hub City ranks 20th on a list — “30 Cities to Restart Your Career” — compiled by Kerry Hannon, author of What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job. The list appears Thursday on the politics/culture website The Daily Beast.
Cities are ranked based on seven criteria: small business growth rate, number of small businesses, personal income, unemployment rate, cost of living, charitable giving and how student-friendly the city is. Lafayette ranked 20th on the list, which was led in descending order by Houston, Omaha, Neb., Dallas, Midland, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Huntsville, Ala., rides the caboose. As the author points out, what most of the cities on the list share, and Lafayette is no exception, are universities and thriving medical centers.
... written by ragin_cajun , October 07, 2010 - 08:02 pm
but, we're gonna lose 3,000 jobs? huh????
... written by The Original Northsidian , October 12, 2010 - 11:54 pm
The university is a great place to be. They pay vp's 200,000. plus a year. And they don't get cut during the bad times. Not a bad gig. Ask Jerry Luke Leblanc.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , October 27, 2010 - 02:36 am
GA, The shame of it all.
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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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