The Lafayette City-Parish Council will look into the operations of the consolidated government’s Public Works Department and Capitol Improvements beginning at 4 p.m. today in the council auditorium.
Pressure has come 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, thanks to former UL President Ray Authement.
State Senator Troy Hebert is calling for Louisiana to support Arizona’s controversial immigration law and to adopt similar legislation.
In an effort to help voters make an informed decision in the fast approaching October 2 election, the League of Women Voters of Lafayette is encouraging everyone to read the responses from all 13 school board candidates to a questionnaire covering some of the most pressing issues facing Lafayette schools.
Lafayette Housing Authority Executive Director Walter Guillory’s claim of a HUD requirement that one of the case managers it hired for the Disaster Housing Assistance Program hold a doctorate, as reported by The Daily Advertiser today, is quite surprising.
Baton Rouge daily The Advocate was the sole newspaper honored this week with the national Sunshine Award by The Society of Professional Journalists.
On August 4, Carol Browner, special adviser to the president for energy and climate change, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show to announce that 75 percent of the oil in the Gulf from the BP spill was gone.
Youngsville argues that a company doesn't have standing to file suit against an annexation.
The Lafayette Parish Public Education Stakeholders Council is hosting a series of forums for school board candidates from Sept. 7 - 9.
Chuck Anselmo Jr. and Chuck Anselmo III are the new owners of the Louisiana IceGators, and the father-son team is bringing the hockey franchise back to the Cajundome.
The $23-25 million project could commence soon, pending a Tuesday vote by the CPC.
MAY 24 Blogger Robert Mann posts this entry about the Baton Rouge Chamber's recent report on Louisiana's higher education system. It's critical to economic development, and yet our system is facing a "funding crisis" with no way to resolve it, the report says. The Chamber says control of tuition and fees must be returned to the higher ed governing boards.
MAY 24 Here's a NBC33 story about Tyrann Mathieu. He has signed with the Arizona Cardinals, inking a $3 million, four-year deal. He gets a signing bonus of $265K, but gets another, larger bonus if he doesn't get cut from the team for doing drugs. The deal reportedly includes mandatory tests and meetings for the player.
MAY 24 Jarvis DeBerry posts here about the redonkulus rhetoric that would have us believe NOLA is a safe city with a murder problem. Maybe the city's crime stats don't compare with its murder stats because you can't manipulate a murder, he says: a dead body's a dead body. It just doesn't make sense, he says, and his readers agree: a poll asks if they believe the city is safe, and more than 90 percent say no.
MAY 24 Jindal administration officials announced Thursday that the privatization of public health care is going to cost a lot more than they budgeted for, the Advocate reports here. "I'm so surprised," said no one. Anywhere. The cost they're projecting now is more than $1 billion - a lot more than the $626 million budgeted for it. And, it's more than it cost the state to operate those hospitals. So why are we doing this again?
MAY 24 Blogger CB Forgotston ridicules the recent PR campaign by the state GOP in the wake of a legislative auditor's request to both major parties. The GOP (apparently unaware that the Dems got the same request) started yammering about being targeted because it had "killed" a tax increase. CB finds that laughable, but it's also pretty funny that the GOP was comparing this episode to the IRS scandal (Because the President has so much to do with our state auditor. Right?).
MAY 24 Politico details some recent fund-raising efforts by Sen. David Vitter, which have raised the question of his future political plans. This time, it is a $5,000 per head "bayou weekend" that includes "Cajun cooking" and an all-caps "alligator hunt," the story reports. Funds raised go to a super PAC that can spend money to support Vitter in federal or state races, the story points out.
MAY 24 The pink building on Royal in the quarter was sold at a sheriff's sale Thursday, this Picayune story reports. An injunction that would have halted the sale wasn't enforced because the family failed to post a $150,000 bond, the story reports. So the owner of the mortgages on the building bought it, for nearly $7 million. Now the feuding family will have to negotiate with that company to get a lease on the building that has housed their business for close to 60 years.
MAY 23 This post in Louisiana Voice tells us about a bill by a Winnsboro lege that would require all public high school students to take at least one Course Choice online class in order to graduate. (What?) Blogger Tom Aswell says it's a monument to "waste and corruption," especially in light of the problems he's exposed with the program in recent weeks. Idaho had a similar program, but voters removed it by a 2-1 margin, Aswell says.
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