Boulet’s 100-day goals: staffing and stability
Where her predecessor and erstwhile opponent made a splash within days of taking office, Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is entering with a calculated ripple.
Where her predecessor and erstwhile opponent made a splash within days of taking office, Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is entering with a calculated ripple.
I look around at those of us in the generation that followed Geraldine Hubbell, and I have not yet found anyone with her talent, her generous spirit or dynamic drive who can ever replace her in our cultural scene.
With more women aware of the potential health risks and preferring a natural style, stylists say the ban offers too little and comes too late.
Registration for the seventh annual SOLA Giving Day, which will be held on May 2, opens today for any nonprofit, church or school that would like to participate. Registration will remain open through March 7.
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A box stocked with free non-perishable items for mothers and babies — diapers, bottles, baby wipes and the like — has been installed at the Lafayette Parish Public Health Unit on Willow Street.
Lafayette Police Department investigated a total of 29 homicides in 2023, according to police information officer Robin Green. This was a record number compared to 22 homicides in 2022 and 25 homicides in 2021.
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LA40by2030’s plan is to raise Louisiana’s ranking to 40th in the nation by 2030.
Emerson, a Carencro Republican, will chair the House Ways and Means committee, a post previously held by former Rep. Stuart Bishop, R-Lafayette. The committee plays a big role in shaping state infrastructure spending.
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Troy “Primo” Primeaux of Primo’s Peppers gets philosophical about heat, addiction and rock and roll. Catch him in the new Hulu docuseries Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People.
They added the outage lasted a little more than an hour for most customers and there were 20 customers without power for about three hours. They also said 970 customers were affected.
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The first member of the committee to speak on the issue was Sen. John Kennedy, R-La, who said the National Flood Insurance Program needed to be reworked. The old model before Risk Rating 2.0 was flawed, but the new model is worse, he said.
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Louisiana’s redrawn congressional map positions Lafayette to have two representatives in Congress, potentially a Republican and a Democrat.
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