How Lafayette can show up and show Pride
Bringing everybody together is what Pride Acadiana is about. And there are plenty of ways to show up and show pride, during Pride Month and year round. Here’s how to get involved.
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From Pontiac Point to Rotary Point: Lafayette’s ambitious bike plan
With sufficient funding and commitment, the 50-mile network of trails and paths could remake how Lafayette gets around.
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Here’s a map of Lafayette drainage projects
Moving at a breakneck pace, LCG has dozens of drainage projects in the works. It’s an immense capital program by local government standards, racking up a bill worth well over $100 million. We mapped them.
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How to make Festival International last forever
Ready to take your love of Festival to the next level? Here’s how to support Festival International and give back to an event that gives so much to Lafayette.
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Lafayette has a redevelopment authority. Why aren’t we using it?
Vacant and abandoned properties have metastasized in Lafayette. A robust redevelopment authority ought to be part of the solution, experts say.
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Redeveloping adjudicated properties in Lafayette is slow — that’s by design
Lafayette’s pace of moving hundreds of orphaned and blighted properties back into commerce has some convinced LCG isn’t really trying.
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Lafayette is chipping away at a mountain of adjudicated properties
Bit by bit, LCG is tackling a frustrating and costly problem that has festered for decades. With well over 1,000 adjudicated properties on the rolls at any one time, there’s a long way to go. And for those who live next to the properties, resolution can’t come fast enough.
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SOLUTION BRIEF: What can we do about Lafayette’s spike in violence?
The numbers are grim. Lafayette has sustained two consecutive years of rising homicides and gun violence. There aren’t any easy answers, but here’s a quick roundup of approaches
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Building Alliances: How rural St. Landry Parish gave its Covid vaccination effort a boost
Compared with other rural communities, St. Landry Parish mounted a better pandemic response and has rivaled wealthier, urban peers. It has the second highest vaccination rate in Acadiana, sneaking up just behind Lafayette Parish.
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What if Lafayette could forecast floods? UL test drives a way to do that.
Ahead of Nicholas, UL launched a beta version of a river stage forecasting model.
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What can Lafayette learn from Colorado Springs about its homelessness response?
Coordination and public resources have fueled a scaled-up approach in Colorado Springs, a city on the radar of those working on the issue Lafayette.
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How are other communities handling rising homelessness?
Catholic Charities has joined six other local housing organizations in asking Lafayette Consolidated Government for a more permanent solution to homelessness — $6.5 million to purchase an out-of-use hotel that would be retrofitted into a permanent, low-barrier, non-congregate shelter.
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