Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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What a difference a year makes.
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And then there’s Lafayette’s hotel business, which isn’t exactly fueling our economic engine.
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OK, we get it: Congressman Jeff Landry, R-City on a Hill, is all about baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and the Big Man in the Sky, plus putting a stop to America’s descent into socialism, egalitarianism, secularism, feminism and ism-ism.
Wednesday, April 4, 2011
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It was long overdue. When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week it was finally taking over the troubled Lafayette Housing Authority, a pall hanging over our fair city finally began to evaporate.
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Say what you will about former station manager J’Nelle Chargois — she was divisive, caustic, embittered, played the worst kind of racial politics.
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Seriously, Joey Durel with a hair allowance?
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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For Louisiana’s offshore oil and gas industry, the news just keeps getting better:
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The old inside joke about Louisiana being the armpit of America isn’t so funny in the aftermath of a report released last week calling for expanded federal efforts to get to the bottom of 42 so-called “disease clusters” in the U.S., including four in the Bayou State.
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Life for employees of Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company and publisher of The Daily Advertiser, Opelousas’ Daily World and three other Louisiana dailies, has been grim over the last few years:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Forget what they say about trial lawyers — they ain’t all bad.
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Corporal punishment: the intentional infliction of pain as punishment for misbehavior and/or as a deterrent to bad behavior.
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State Rep. Rickey Hardy, D-Dumbfounding, is again making a name for himself for the wrong reasons.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Louisiana politicians like to spin a good yarn.
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Already the target of a lawsuit by some Whitney Bank shareholders, the planned merger of Mississippi-based Hancock Bank with New Orleans’ Whitney — the largest Louisiana-based bank — became more troublesome recently...
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If the accusations are correct, state Rep. Rickey Hardy was right: Lawrence Richard is “the Grinch who stole Mardi Gras.”
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