Dark Roux chef isn’t making a fuss with new restaurant
Vestal will be a far cry from Ryan Trahan’s previous restaurant, with a more casual atmosphere and approachable menu.
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Month: January 2020
Column: If we want to fix Lafayette’s roads, we must stop building new ones
Lafayette’s roads suck and both our city and parish budgets are in disarray. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do something about this problem. We just need to reprioritize maintaining the infrastructure we already have.
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Hold the phone: Is Lafayette actually seeing a brain gain?
There’s been a lot of talk about brain drain lately, the exodus of educated talent. It’s become a meme-level concern among young professionals. But oddly, the data doesn’t necessarily back up the anxiety.
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Bone breaking, get-low, pauzin, Flexn
Barely a decade old, witnessing Flexn today is like watching the emergence of hip hop in the 1970s and 1980s. Catch Flex Ave. this week at AcA.
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The loudest voices A fight for control of the Lafayette Republican Party
Just a week into his first term, Mayor-President Josh Guillory pushed out his chief administrative officer, Beth Guidry. A lack of experience was the official explanation, but according to Guidry, the mayor thought she had the wrong friends.
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FIL’s Lisa Stafford, others honored for helping Haitian band facing political crisis
Stafford and the other volunteers who came to RAM’s rescue realized that to keep a foreign group of musicians in the country legally, you had to keep them working, as in performing and gigging.
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Lafayette's drainage and road spending hasn't kept up with its growth
Over the last ten years, spending on virtually every government function has risen — except Public Works.
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Economic Outlook: Economist projects modest job growth for Acadiana in 2020
UL Economist Gary Wagner predicts around 1% job growth for Acadiana this year, a rate that would beat statewide projections but still lag behind the nation.
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Irma Trosclair makes her case
The interim Lafayette school superintendent wants to make her job permanent.
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COLUMN: Lafayette’s economy is rising but not recovering what was lost
GDP, personal income, employment, retail and real estate sales are all increasing, but without oil and gas recovering our economy is trending towards mediocrity.
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More with less: Guillory lays out his year-one launch initiatives for Lafayette
The gist: From the jump, the new mayor-president is moving on his campaign promises. He’s got big plans to streamline consolidated government in the face of mounting financial pressure on both the city and parish budgets. Now sworn in, along with two brand new councils, Josh Guillory promises he can do more with less.
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Take a wine from the wild side, Lafayette
Wild Child Wines is on the hunt for unique, uncompromising grapes. This isn’t your grocery store’s wine section.
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