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When consolidation creates a suburb without a city
How does Lafayette’s experiment with consolidation stack up with the successes and failures of other consolidated governments across the country?
Artist lofts in the works for old Coke bottling facility behind the Less Pay Motel
Podcast: Kevin Blanchard talks deconsolidation
Some argue that breaking up consolidated government would liberate the city from an unfavorable political circumstance. Former journalist and Lafayette public works director Kevin Blanchard is in the camp. He says giving Lafayette a city council won’t fix what’s wrong with consolidation, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Lafayette passed a complete streets policy
Geoff Dyer to resign his post as CEO of the Downtown Development Authority
LPSS is under fire. What are the legal risks?
Nearly 12 years after the Schools of Choice program helped LPSS escape federal scrutiny, the same program is at the center of a federal lawsuit alleging manipulation and exclusionary practices.
The council has one more shot at deconsolidation this year
Sheriff Garber explained his sales tax to the City-Parish Council
Two years and waiting: a look inside the drainage action plan
Homeowners continue to await drainage work promised in a tax rededication passed last year. The work is not a fix; it’s a Bandaid.