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 Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Written by Jeremy Alford
As the only Democrat running the 3rd Congressional District, Ravi Sangisetty got a pass from the weekend primary elections, but GOP operatives didn’t hold back.
The only candidate in the 3rd Congressional District who already had a comfortable spot last week in the November general election was Democrat Ravi Sangisetty. Unlike his Republican counterparts — Houma’s Hunt Downer and New Iberia’s Jeff Landry and Kristian Magar — Sangisetty didn’t have to slug it out during Saturdays’ party primary elections. Sangisetty is the only Democrat in the race and therefore advanced without a challenge.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Written by Nathan Stubbs
Recently revised policies on students’ make-up work for unexcused absences and suspensions has the Lafayette Parish School Board concerned about double standards.
At the last school board meeting on Aug. 18, Nelda Broussard, Lafayette Parish School System’s director of census, student behavior and health services, addressed the board in an attempt to clear up growing confusion regarding the school system’s recently revised attendance policies. However, most board members seemed to walk out of the meeting even more perplexed about the policy. The issue involves several changes that have recently been enacted — from the state Legislature, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Lafayette Parish School Board itself.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Written by Leslie Turk
With clear evidence Chris Williams was instructing students on the business of politics and claiming those same hours on another government-funded contract, it’s time he learned his lesson.
Undoubtedly, an enormous amount of pressure is coming down on UL Lafayette to review the work Chris Williams has been doing at the university since he first secured a full-time job as a political science instructor in January 2008 — a move pulled right from the good ol’ boys’ playbook that former UL President Ray Authement shamelessly tried to pass off as an emergency appointment. Authement hired Williams just as he was preparing to leave the Lafayette City-Parish Council.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Written by Jeremy Alford
Libertarians preparing for first federal primary
The Libertarian Party of Louisiana has lined up two contenders for its first-ever U.S. Senate primary later this week, although it may also be its last. That’s because the state will revert to open primaries in 2012 due to confusion among voters. For now, however, the party will have its time in the political primary sun with a pair of candidates who previously made bids for the U.S. House.
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 Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Written by Nathan Stubbs
New ‘FiberCorps’ initiative hopes to reboot Lafayette’s tech community.
As a national tech journalist and broadband policy advocate, Geoff Daily has visited and followed several small communities across the country that have pioneered the buildout of municipal fiber to the home telecommunications networks. “It’s a similar story in all of them,” Daily says....
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