Current Calendar 10/17-10/23
A boudin cookoff, brunch-on-the-go, theatrical productions, and a drive-in movie fill this weekend’s calendar.
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Month: October 2018
Lafayette was on ‘SNL’ last weekend, and it was “surreal”
AOC executive director and one of the creators behind the AOC logo talk about seeing their work on “Saturday Night Live”
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What would Maurice Heymann do to build a brighter future for Lafayette?
Given that he fostered an industry that generates billions of dollars in GDP, it’d be great to ask him what he would do to get us out of the $10 billion hole our economy’s in.
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The civil service snag in NextGEN’s proposal
The gist: At last week’s presentation to the Lafayette Public Utilities Authority, NextGEN officials indicated with confidence that LUS’s hundreds of employees need not worry about their civil service protection if NextGEN takes over management of the public utility.
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Bernhard’s pitch: LUS is fine. We can make it better.
At long last, the public got to see NextGEN Utility Systems/Bernhard Capital Partners’ proposal to run LUS on full display.
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‘Go-to guy’ on ethics and professionalism is ‘temporary’ interim marshal
C. Michael Hill, one of the Lafayette Bar Association’s “go-to guys” for continuing education presentations on ethics and professionalism, was sworn in Tuesday morning to replace embattled — and now multiply convicted — City Marshal Brian Pope.
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Current Calendar 10/10-10/16
Festivals Acadiens et Creoles is a great place to eat. Victoria’s Secret spokesman Bob Dylan plays the Heymann Center.
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NextGEN’s offer by the numbers
What’s Jim Bernhard’s bid to run LUS really worth?
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Dark money in local politics
Dark money is poised to have considerable influence at the state and especially local levels.
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Entergy wants a shot at LUS
Robideaux said through his spokeswoman that conversations with Entergy have continued intermittently since at least June of this year.
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Here are five big questions the council needs to ask about Bernhard’s LUS bid
Chief among them: Can we get out of it?
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Bernhard delivers $1.3 billion bid for LUS
Billed as a $4.1 billion deal, the offer is heavy on assumed indirect economic impacts.
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