Conversation: What will be Lafayette’s biggest headline in 2022?
Looking back and looking ahead as 2021 winds down.
Looking back and looking ahead as 2021 winds down.
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
Most of the major decisions have been made, including some significant changes to the version approved by the federal government in the early 2000s. Whether the Connector can make good on lofty promises will hinge on decisions made in 2022.
With a hastily completed application, LCG met a Nov. 1 capital outlay request deadline, asking the state to help fund a $127 million replacement for the Heymann Performing Arts Center in the next budget cycle.
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
Legislative bodies appropriate money, not the executive branch. But that’s exactly what’s been happening at LCG for more than a decade in conflict with a pair of attorney general opinions.
The long-discussed plan to build a new performing arts center in Lafayette may be taking shape. Attached to the proposal is a $100 million price tag funded by state capital outlay and a 1-cent sales tax in the city of Lafayette.
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
The main contours of the elevated freeway have taken shape, with relatively little left to decide — except who will pay for the features purported to make it transformative.
Dozens of south Louisiana residents pleaded with lawmakers Tuesday to keep Louisiana Senate District 22 — home to residents from Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry and St. Martin parishes — together through the state’s political redistricting.
If voters fail to renew the library’s second millage, two or more libraries could be forced to close. The politics around this vote are more fraught than normal.
Thomas Glover Sr. says Guillory brought him in to remake LPD — and silenced publicity about it. Community members now fear his modest progress will be reversed.
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