‘Clean up’ politics: Recycle campaign signs
Without taking this extra step, the signs can take about 20 years to decompose in a local landfill.
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Month: October 2022
Council Preview: LCG pay raises; new garbage contract
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Republican leaders in Congress rallied to condemn the attack including Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky; Vice President Mike Pence; and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, the Jefferson Republican who was nearly killed in a politically motived June 2017 shooting.
Source: The Advocate
City of Lafayette residents will choose between three candidates to replace ousted City Court Judge Michelle Odinet this fall. See who’s on the ballot and what they have to say about the issues facing Lafayette City Court.
Source: The Advertiser
Guillory, whose extra-curricular attempts to bolster his income as mayor-president have made headlines this fall, has left several companies owned by himself or his wife off the annual financial disclosures he has been required to file with the Ethics Administration since taking office.
Source: The Advertiser
The ‘People’s Court’: How Lafayette City Court works
What happens in Lafayette City Court can have a substantial impact on people’s lives. The setting is intimate, meaning judges play an even bigger and more personal role in what’s often called the People’s Court.
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The deal comes a week after a federal appeals court sent a similar lawsuit back to state court for trial, potentially clearing the way for more than 40 similar suits that allege billions of dollars in coastal wetland damages by oil and gas companies to also move forward.
Source: The Advocate
The internationally acclaimed author, who died in November 2019 at age 86, was UL Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus; he taught creative writing at the University from 1983 until his retirement in 2010.
The stamp, which the United States Postal Service announced today, will be the 46th in its Black Heritage series; it will feature an oil painting based on a photograph that portrays a stoic, poised Gaines wearing his trademark beret.
Source: KATC
Captain Judith Estorge, a Lafayette native and UL alumni who has been a member of the Lafayette Police Department since 1993, will take over the chief’s position on November 1. She is believed to be the first female to hold the job.
Source: KATC
The new performing arts center would replace the city-owned Heymann Performing Arts Center on College Road next to Ochsner Lafayette General, which would like the arts center property so it can further expand its campus.
Source: The Advocate
On top of high fees, Lafayette officials add more barriers to public records
Reporters now face more barriers to access public records, on top of new fees the Guillory administration rolled out targeting the press. While a legal challenge and council action crawl forward, the barriers stand. And other public officials are following similar playbooks.
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LCG sued McGoffin individually Aug. 8 alleging he violated the Louisiana Public Records Law by not providing documents LCG requested Nov. 2, 2021, as part of an LCG audit of City Court.
Source: The Advocate