For decades, Blanco led parallel lives — serving as an administrator at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette while promoting his wife’s political career and serving as her chief political adviser.
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Christiaan Mader
Christiaan Mader founded The Current in 2018, reviving the brand from a short-lived culture magazine he created for Lafayette publisher INDMedia. An award-winning investigative and culture journalist, Christiaan’s work as a writer and reporter has appeared in The New York Times, Vice, Offbeat, Gambit, and The Advocate.
Auditors with Faulk and Winkler, a certified public accounting firm out of Baton Rouge, and attorneys with Phelps Dunbar of Baton Rouge, have been hired by the City Council and are working on the probe, City Council Chairwoman Nanette Cook said.
Source: The Advocate
The number of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs in the third quarter was the highest number in a quarter going back to at least 2012, according to BLS data, with an estimated 66,000 leaving their jobs in September.
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Coronavirus is not the only concern this year. Alabama Department of Health medical officer Wes Stubblefield warns of a “tripledemic” as two other respiratory illnesses are circulating around, too — influenza and the highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV. Stubblefield said the age group most affected by the flu has been 5-24 year-olds.
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Cassidy announced his decision Friday morning as promised, choosing to remain in the Senate to leverage his growing seniority and influence during his second six-year term, which he won in 2020. On Thursday Cassidy announced he will be the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Health Committee.
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The attorney was chosen as the new defender by State Public Defender Rémy Starns and confirmed by the Louisiana Public Defender Board on Oct. 10. She was tapped from a pool of 12 applicants after a five-month selection process
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Showing that last year’s quality of life survey commissioned by One Acadiana were not some sort of anomaly, 71% of respondents rated the overall quality of life in the parish total positive, nearly duplicating the 72% that gave a similar response in the previous poll.
Source: The Advocate
Kennedy’s announcement comes less than a week after he won reelection to a second six-year term in the Senate in a landslide with 62%.
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School officials most recently sold its central warehouse space as part of its property sale at 113 Chaplin Drive to the Lafayette Airport Commission but has been since leasing the space until it could find a permanent space.
Source: The Advocate
Boustany, Edwards head for Lafayette City Court runoff
Edwards took the edge on Election Day. But his margin was slim, just under 1,000 votes.
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Representatives from SOS Kyle Ardoin’s office did not say what was causing the issue, such as higher traffic from users. They also did not say how widespread the problem was.
Source: The Advocate
Louisiana’s state Republican Party has endorsed GOP Attorney General Jeff Landry in the 2023 governor’s race to the chagrin of other top potential candidates who claim Landry is trying to rig the campaign before everyone is at the gate.
As first reported by LaPolitics Weekly, the Louisiana Republican Party executive committee voted Sunday night to endorse Landry in an effort to coalesce support behind a single candidate.
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