COLUMN: Where do the candidates agree?
It’s cliché to say that there is more that unites than divides the candidates. But reflecting on some of those points of unity is important.
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Seen and Heard
A symposium celebrates the creative work of women and “unpacks” how Cajun and Creole culture have traditionally approached gender.
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Acadiana Mall’s new owners get Macy’s property tax bill slashed
The gist: Acadiana Mall’s new owners appealed the assessment of the Macy’s building and got a big reduction from the tax assessor, but New York-based Namdar Realty did not appeal the value placed on the mall itself — one that has remained exceptionally low over the past decade.
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COLUMN: The elephant in this election is Lafayette’s billion dollar infrastructure deficit
Years of kicking the infrastructure can down the road has finally caught up with us.
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State releases draft plan for spending $1.2 billion watershed grant
The gist: The multi-agency program created by the governor’s office in the wake of the 2016 floods has released a draft action plan outlining, in broad terms, how the state will spend a $1.2 billion grant from the federal government. A 45-day public comment period begins next week.
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Community Agenda 2019: You asked, we listened, they answered
We asked what you wanted to hear candidates for council and mayor-president talk about. Here are their responses.
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Lenny Lemoine invests in historic Whitney Bank building in New Orleans’ CBD
The gist: Within months of selling a major stake in his construction firm to Bernhard Capital Partners, Lafayette businessman Lenny Lemoine has teamed up with Baton Rouge developer Mike Wampold to buy the 108-year-old former Whitney National Bank building on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans.
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Lafayette General merging with Ochsner Health System
The gist: Wednesday morning Lafayette General Health and Ochsner Health System ended years of speculation in local health care circles, sparked largely by a 2015 strategic partnership, that the two would eventually become one.
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Economist bullish on job growth projections for Lafayette in 2020
The gist: Economist Loren Scott projects that the Lafayette economy will add 7,200 jobs over the next two years, according to his annual outlook presented Wednesday at an event hosted by One Acadiana. Scott’s rosy forecast rests on what he calls “heroic assumptions” about the growth of the U.S. economy and the prospect of more […]
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Acadiana residents and leaders frustrated by slow launch of state watershed initiative
The gist: Three years since its conception in the wake of the 2016 floods, the Louisiana Watershed Initiative has begun to take shape at a speed that is frustrating flood victims, advocates and local officials. Billed as an apolitical approach to tackling the state’s flood risk, the program has a steep hill to climb above […]
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Schoolhouse Baroque!
Lafayette Middle’s historic auditorium gets a second act playing host to New Orleans chamber ensemble Lyrica Baroque
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Extending Louisiana Avenue grows Lafayette the wrong way
Spending millions of city dollars to build a road through a cane field isn’t a new idea. We can’t afford to keep making the same mistakes.
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