| Industrial Waste |
The federal immigration debate has ensnared some of Louisiana’s most iconic industries — and the guest workers they rely on.
By JEREMY ALFORD • Photos by ROBIN MAY
You’ve probably never heard of an H-2B guest worker visa. But you have probably enjoyed the yield it produces. Like one of those melt-in-your-mouth Gold Brick Eggs from Elmer Candy. Or a package of Louisiana-harvested crawfish tails. Or maybe it was a night out in New Orleans, kicked off with drinks at one of the...
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| RE: The Digitally Divided |
 The transition to web-based news continues to divorce journalists from their paychecks. The Times-Picayune is just the latest example.
“Saddle up the dinosaurs, we’re riding to Chernobyl!”
The depressing chime of the death knell for daily newspapers — with an emphasis on paper — took on a shriller, more fretful tone last week when the venerable Times-Picayune, the Pulitzer-winning daily that has been the dominant source of news in the Crescent City for more than...
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| The Strong Arm of the Law |
Lafayette’s schools chief is eyeing an intervention model that is thriving in Iberia Parish.
By Heather Miller
As Lafayette Parish Schools Superintendent Pat Cooper continues to hammer home the centerpieces of his district turnaround plan, one doesn’t have to look farther than neighboring parishes in Acadiana to see a rare prototype of Cooper’s vision that’s been flourishing in Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parish schools for more than a decade.
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| Pooyie 05.30.12 |
C'est Bon
The eight-part investigative series from The Times-Picayune on the state of Louisiana’s prison system gave Louisianans a troubling glimpse of how we became — and why we remain — the world’s prison capital.
Pas Bon
Lafayette Consolidated Government appears ready to follow through with City-Parish President Joey Durel’s pledge to sever LCG’s relationship with the city of Broussard.
Couillon
The 15 freshman GOP representatives in the House Tea Party Caucus rode a p...
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| BluesBerry Thrill |
 It came to her last spring in a St. Francisville blueberry orchard, and now the BluesBerry Festival and Cookoff is set for its second go-around Saturday.
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| Finds 05.30.12 |
No doubt about it, Taylor McMahon’s four-track EP, Memory Music, is perfect summer music.
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| Party Girl 05.30.12 |
A massive air-conditioned, carpeted tent erected by Event Rental on the Heart Hospital’s grounds housed patrons of the Heart Ball benefitting the American Heart Association.
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