Column: Boulet’s first budget is sobering
Lafayette’s lived through a financial fairy land the past few years. This budgets bursts the bubble.
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Currency
Columnist Geoff Daily explores Lafayette’s economy and government, providing critical commentary about what’s working and what’s not.
Column: Lafayette’s golden age of food variety
Adventurous eaters rejoice! Lafayette’s buffet of restaurants has more choices than ever.
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Column: Will Lafayette accept Landry’s homeless shelter funding veto lying down?
Gov. Landry’s decision to veto $1 million for Catholic Charities of Acadiana to run its homeless shelter — if left unchecked — could literally kill people.
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Lafayette Parish owes the city $17M. It’s time to pay it back.
Lafayette Parish owes $17 million to city taxpayers for the Homewood Detention Pond. The debt is costing taxpayers $500,000 yearly in lost interest.
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Column: Lafayette is the best of the worst — so what?
Louisiana’s relative distress may actually help Lafayette. If you live in a poor performing parish, Lafayette offers one of the best places to relocate to.
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Column: LUS Fiber is in trouble
If you skimmed LUS Fiber’s annual report, you might think things are going great. But read a little deeper and a troubling picture emerges.
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COLUMN: Lafayette isn’t Abbeville or Austin, it’s a Big Town
The next couple of decades are going to be defined by the rise of Big Towns, communities no longer striving to be the next Austin but instead the next Chattanooga, Greenville, Sioux Falls — or maybe even the next Lafayette.
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Column: Waitr’s undelivered promise
What’s tragic about Waitr’s demise is how close it got to being a defining success for Lafayette’s economy.
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Column: Lafayette’s population donut is growing. Let’s savor the opportunity.
Lafayette Parish is growing faster than the national average, becoming more diverse and producing more jobs. We should tap into that strength, whatever its sources.
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COLUMN: Lafayette’s economic performance went from best to worst. Why?
Lafayette used to be a high flier on the Milken Institute’s Best Performing Cities report. Now we’re the fourth worst performing city in America.
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COLUMN: What’s happening in Lafayette’s restaurant scene?
The restaurant business has always been notoriously tough. Even more so in a place like Lafayette, where the bar has been set so high by so many establishments for so many years.
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COLUMN: Lafayette has one more shot at getting ARPA right
Lafayette has $28 million in federal coronavirus funds left to spend. It’s one-in-a-lifetime money that could do a lot of good.
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