| Cool Town |
 Lafayette remains on a cool trajectory, but will our progress be retarded by agents of regression? Photos by Robin May
OK, OK, we’re drama queens at 551 Jefferson St. The sky isn’t falling. The angry horde of middle-aged, creaky-backed buzzkills who glower and wave the Constitution hasn’t taken over our fair city. Lafayette remains a progressive community — a “Cool Town” that attracts creative people and traffics in their technological innovation and their cultural products. A v...
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| Bobby Jindal: Liberator |
By cracking down on dissident lawmakers and stripping them of committee assignments, Gov. Bobby Jindal is actually freeing them to publicly question his priorities.
By Jeremy Alford
A second-term lawmaker says it was “horrible” how Gov. Bobby Jindal stripped a vice chairman of his title earlier this month for voting against the administration. “That’s just terrible to me. That’s public intimidation,” says Rep. Truck Gisclair, D-Raceland. “I’ll tell you this, they are not going
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| Fair Share: 2300 South College Road |
 Location: 2300 South College Road
Acreage: 6.88 acres
Property taxes paid in 2010: $21.50
Owner: WPM Exploration Inc.
Description: This vacant lot sits between two other empty tracts along South College Road, adjacent to a small row of new industrial companies and near a small industrial complex.
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| Pooyie 03.28.12 |
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
C'est Bon
Whether your opinion on electronic enforcement of speed limits and traffic signals in Lafayette is “Oh, brother!” or “Big Brother,” the data show consolidated government’s SafeLight/SafeSpeed programs are achieving their desired goal: raising reve ... woops ... changing driver behavior.
Pas Bon
A recent tour by National Wildlife Federation researchers of Louisiana marshes affected by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill found abun...
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| It's the Culture, Stupid |
 The vast majority of New Jersey Italians aren’t at all like what’s broadcast to the country on the reality show Jersey Shore. Likewise, there’s more to Louisiana Cajuns than America sees on Swamp People.
And it’s such stereotypes folklorist and filmmaker Conni Castille counters with her award-winning documentaries.
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| Party Girl 03.28.12 |
The Krewe of Carnivale en Rio stayed true to its reputation for throwing the best party in town before this year’s parade with an early afternoon celebration at Pour.
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