| Hidden Agenda? |
 Some critics of smart meters and the comprehensive plan cite a little-known resolution of the United Nations for the basis of their opposition. We hope their paranoia doesn’t hinder progress in Lafayette.
By Walter Pierce
If you haven’t yet heard of Agenda 21, please read on. But even if you set this newspaper down, flip the page or navigate elsewhere online, Agenda 21 will find you. It’s actually been with us for two decades, but it’s beginning to push its way up through the soft crust ...
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| Government Intervention |
Girard Park residents cry foul over city’s decision to seek its own ‘relief’ in a conniving neighbor’s lawsuit.
By Leslie Turk
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| Noise Maker: Zack Kopplin |
 Gov. Bobby Jindal’s rebranding of himself as an “education governor” could be tested this session on an unlikely front if a successful attempt at repealing the Louisiana Science Education Act makes it to his desk.
Led last year by high school senior Zack Kopplin of Baton Rouge, the repeal effort failed in a Senate committee despite the urging of more than 40 Nobel laureates in the sciences and a host of other scientific groups, but Kopplin tells The Ind he’ll be back for the upcoming ses
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| Pooyie 02.15.12 |
C'est Bon
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana says it welcomes Gov. Bobby Jindal’s announcement that a legislative package is being produced to clarify the sweeping ethics reforms laws passed shortly after the governor began his first term — reforms that have since been widely criticized for making ethics enforcement toothless and creating confusion as to which agencies are responsible for investigating and enforcing ethics laws and penalizing scofflaws.
Pas Bon
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| That's So Kinky! |
 Texas’ famed Jewish cowboy riffs on hard times, the music biz and stray dogs.
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| Mo' Pho! |
I like your secrets about your favorite eating spots as much as I like passing them along. So when an old pal and pho connoisseur — he is called the Pho King — tells me that there is a little place in New Iberia with the best, I must listen. And then I have to tell you guys about it.
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| Find 02.15.12 |
A new installment from the Images of America series offers a trove of historic photographs and little-known or long-forgotten details on the contributions of Acadiana’s black population.
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| Here's your Mardi Gras schedule |
Or, an exhaustive (select) list of parades and other activities around Acadiana, compiled for your convenience
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| Party Girl 02.15.12 |
The walls of Darnall, Sikes, Gardes & Frederick’s offices are filled with nautical scenes and dreamy landscapes for the Winter 2012 Art for All Seasons Exhibit.
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