“It’s crippling right now,” Acadia Parish crawfish producer Gerard Frey said. “We’ve never faced anything like it. We can only sell 10% or 15% of what we catch.”
April 3, 2020
Lafayette charities fear wave of need as thousands apply for unemployment related to coronavirus
Programs typically strained in normal circumstances are poised to be slammed from two sides, as job losses surge people into unprecedented vulnerability and contributions dry up.
May 7, 2020
Analysis: Balancing Lafayette’s city budget is going to hurt
Lafayette's city general fund is facing such large deficits that even zeroing out what critics call government waste won’t be enough to close the gap.
August 24, 2020
Marco and Laura won’t deter Lafayette protestors
The gist: Activists with the local NAACP staged a sit-in at City hall Monday, two days ahead of Tropical Storm Laura’s expected landfall as a hurricane. Jamal Taylor, 33, one of the NAACP organizers, has promised more action in days to come both on the ground and over Zoom, as part of an ongoing effort to demand answers about the...
October 17, 2018
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.
August 29, 2018
How tolerance is essential to growing Lafayette’s innovation economy
The Drag Queen Story Time episode's impact is bigger than drag queens and literacy.
November 13, 2019
Costly upgrades could spell retirement or conversion of LUS’s coal plant
The gist: For the first time in its history, Lafayette’s publicly owned utility opened its doors to public involvement in how it plans for the city’s power needs, a process called an integrated resource plan, or IRP. A big decision before LUS and its customer-owners: what to do with its coal-fired power plant.