You’re gonna break 5,000 eggs: The Current Calendar 10/31 – 11/6
For Abbeville’s Giant Omelette Celebration, 5,034 eggs will be cracked. That’s 4,984 more than Paul Newman ate in Cool Hand Luke.
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News + Notes
An over-simplified guide to the 2018 constitutional amendments
If PAR’s too lengthy and haiku’s too short, this guide’s for you.
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NextGEN sets up headquarters Downtown in campaign to court Lafayette on LUS deal
NextGEN also created a Facebook page and launched a phone campaign to go along with its digital billboards billing a $1.3 billion offer.
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The Buchanan garage problem
It’s a microcosm of the state of our current affairs — a parish asset, that’s really a liability, decaying from neglect with no solution in sight.
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Why we need to fix the status quo for funding our courthouse and jail
On Nov. 6th we vote on whether to increase taxes for our parish courthouse and jail or instead to maintain the status quo. But the status quo is broken. Here’s why.
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Robideaux says the public doesn’t have all the facts on the NextGEN/LUS deal. He’s not helping.
If the public doesn’t have all the facts, it’s in part because he’s not providing them. The bottom line is Robideaux’s account raises some red flags. Here are a few of the big ones.
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Redevelopment of the old federal courthouse hits the skids
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Council squeezes Robideaux on NextGEN and angles for an end game on the LUS ordeal
If the Bernhard Capital Partners/NextGEN proposal to take over operations of LUS has any council support at this point, it was hard to see it at Tuesday night’s council meeting.
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The civil service snag in NextGEN’s proposal
The gist: At last week’s presentation to the Lafayette Public Utilities Authority, NextGEN officials indicated with confidence that LUS’s hundreds of employees need not worry about their civil service protection if NextGEN takes over management of the public utility.
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Bernhard’s pitch: LUS is fine. We can make it better.
At long last, the public got to see NextGEN Utility Systems/Bernhard Capital Partners’ proposal to run LUS on full display.
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‘Go-to guy’ on ethics and professionalism is ‘temporary’ interim marshal
C. Michael Hill, one of the Lafayette Bar Association’s “go-to guys” for continuing education presentations on ethics and professionalism, was sworn in Tuesday morning to replace embattled — and now multiply convicted — City Marshal Brian Pope.
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NextGEN’s offer by the numbers
What’s Jim Bernhard’s bid to run LUS really worth?
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