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The Current is going nonprofit. Here’s why
Over the last 14 months, The Current has been an experiment in building a new kind of media. We were a new kind of animal. Digital first. Member supported. And now we’re pursuing a new moniker: Lafayette’s first nonprofit news organization. Let me tell you why.
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Adopt-A-Stop count up to 30 bus shelters funded
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Downtown Rising dreams big
Could a new, possibly-annual, ticketed concert series keep Downtown Lafayette on its ever-developing path? Gus Rezende and Social Entertainment think so.
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Shaq, U.S. Rep. Higgins no longer Lafayette reserve deputy marshals
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New era but same consultant for LUS on long-term planning process
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Vision 2020: Lafayette has the chance to lead a state lagging on climate change action
Fighting climate change takes a global effort — one that we are simply choosing not to participate in.
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How swamp pop invaded the U.K. and stole Nick Lowe’s heart
Swamp pop took over the airwaves of 1970s London where it was loved and celebrated by English hitmakers like Nick Lowe, who performs in Lafayette this week.
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Ad exec Paul Eason likely to be fourth candidate in M-P race
Eason says he has long had a passion for service and feels like the timing is right for him and his family now. The 60-year-old Republican businessman owns and operates Eason Advertising in the Oil Center.
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Nancy Marcotte running for mayor-president
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