Voices: Long live Lafayette’s Black parade
A short history of pride, celebration and representation.
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Month: February 2022
Redeveloping adjudicated properties in Lafayette is slow — that’s by design
Lafayette’s pace of moving hundreds of orphaned and blighted properties back into commerce has some convinced LCG isn’t really trying.
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Reflections: The village is not obsolete. It’s vital.
It may be less common today that communities raise our children. That’s why it’s all the more important to bring it back, says Randy Cobb.
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The good, bad and ugly of the Q1 2022 Louisiana Economic Activity Forecast
UL’s Acadiana Business Economist Endowed Chair Gary Wagner’s quarterly economic forecast shows a local and state economy still struggling to recover in the face of increasing national headwinds.
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GEOFF DAILY: Why Lafayette can’t afford two superparks
Lafayette can build them. But where is the money to operate and maintain them?
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Reflections: Returning to the door of no return
To explore the relevance of the proverb, we have to consider the many distinct villages that make up the Black diaspora and the ways Black family and community cohere differently today than in the recent and distant past
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2/15/22 Council Preview: A new LUS director, redistricting, gaming, new fines for littering and other bad behaviors, and taking over state roads
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Reflections: Black elders extend the village of Black youth, care and freedom dreams
To explore the relevance of the proverb, we have to consider the many distinct villages that make up the Black diaspora and the ways Black family and community cohere differently today than in the recent and distant past
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Lafayette is chipping away at a mountain of adjudicated properties
Bit by bit, LCG is tackling a frustrating and costly problem that has festered for decades. With well over 1,000 adjudicated properties on the rolls at any one time, there’s a long way to go. And for those who live next to the properties, resolution can’t come fast enough.
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Louisiana Legislature starts working on new political maps
Republicans in leadership – Senate President Page Cortez, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and Sen. Sharon Hewitt – submitted maps that retain just one majority-Black district. Democrats, who submitted the other seven bills, have included two majority-Black districts in their proposals.
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The Current and Daily Advertiser file suit for Lafayette police records on sexual harassment investigation
After repeatedly being denied access to public records involving the sexual harassment investigation into former interim Chief Wayne Griffin, two Lafayette media outlets sue LCG, Lafayette PD.
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