Parish Councilman Kevin Naquin, the council’s finance chair, proposed the raise and others to make some top government jobs more attractive. Naquin ruled out run for M-P himself. If approved, the mayor-president’s salary would increase by $48,000.
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Set to be introduced next week, the ordinance adopts a new policy for handling public records requests, along with a bill of rights, and eliminates fees for sending records electronically. Under intense press scrutiny, the Guillory administration had imposed a $1 per page fee to email public records earlier this year, drawing a legal challenge from The Current and The Advocate.
The ordinance also establishes a records clerk position within the council office to handle requests.
Source: The Advocate
Guillory has taken heat for his efforts to make money on the side, among them teaching courses at UL and taking on legal work after promising to shutter his law practice. The administration is also again asking the council for a slate of raises for top appointees.
Locals count Thruway deaths while officials wait on I-49
There’s no plan to improve the Evangeline Thruway before the I-49 Connector is finished. Advocates say the cost of waiting is human life.
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City Council investigation to include mayor-president’s use of Lafayette police for security
A seldom-used LPD dignitary protection unit has become M-P Josh Guillory’s full-time security. Council members have asked an audit firm to probe the arrangement.
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Louisiana Right to Life — the state’s most powerful anti-abortion group — has been celebrating a victory it’s spent over 50 years fighting to achieve, but it wants to go further. It wants to end an exception to the ban that allows for abortions for so-called “medically futile” pregnancies in the next legislative session.
Source: WWNO
Although flu is outpacing other respiratory viruses like RSV, adenovirus, parainfluenza and rhinovirus, the combination has led to packed emergency rooms and full doctors’ offices.
Source: The Advocate
Why y’all leaving Lafayette, fellow kids?
Weigh in and get tickets to the Undercurrent Awards.
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No Lafayette school received a failing grade in 2022
Lafayette schools got improved marks on their 2022 report card. None of the district’s schools regressed by letter grade since 2019.
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For decades, Blanco led parallel lives — serving as an administrator at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette while promoting his wife’s political career and serving as her chief political adviser.
Source: The Advocate
Auditors with Faulk and Winkler, a certified public accounting firm out of Baton Rouge, and attorneys with Phelps Dunbar of Baton Rouge, have been hired by the City Council and are working on the probe, City Council Chairwoman Nanette Cook said.
Source: The Advocate
The number of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs in the third quarter was the highest number in a quarter going back to at least 2012, according to BLS data, with an estimated 66,000 leaving their jobs in September.
Source: The Advertiser