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Lafayette Parish public school students could soon be on their way to having their own personal electronic health records following
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Only five school districts across the state are technologically ready to begin online testing of their students as part
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Be careful what you wish for. Oil giant Shell should have known its social media stunt inviting public participation
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Rum is the New World’s answer to Old World whiskey, and South Louisiana is set to become a major player in the production of the potent potable.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal claims he wasn’t aware until mid June of the fiscal ramifications — an upwards of $100 million annual blow to the state budget —
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If the city of Lafayette proclaimed the sky blue, Jared Bellard and William Theriot would beg to differ.
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After mounting pressure from several environmental groups threatening legal action...
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A hearing officer’s report on state Rep. Vincent Pierre’s request to reduce his monthly child support payments...
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Baby, meet bath water.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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Freelance sports writer Dan McDonald, a regular contributor to The Independent, was named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Sports Writer of the Year
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The inaction of Congress so far to halt the doubling of Stafford college loan interest rates from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent has prompted student government presidents from five Louisiana universities — including UL Lafayette — to urge federal lawmakers to take action before the increased rates take effect July 1.
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Sen. David Vitter wasted little time in decrying the U.S. Supreme Court’s dismantling of Arizona’s draconian immigration law, issuing a press release within an hour of the ruling in which he complained
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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Lafayette has been selected one of 25 cities across the country to hop on the US Ignite bandwidth wagon and attract national attention to the next-generation technologies the Hub City has to offer.
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Gov. Bobby Voucher is eager to siphon our tax dollars out of public education and pump them into private schools that teach kids pseudo-science and pseudo-history. French immersion?
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U.S. Department of Justice attorney Rachel Hranitzky clearly needs a 1st Amendment refresher; then she needs to host a seminar for her bosses.
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