The FBI has joined two federal agencies scrutinizing Lafayette’s drainage projects, this time with an eye on the relationship between the contractor and Mayor-President Josh Guillory.
A local food desert initiative is developing a fund to put grocery stores back on Northside neighborhood blocks.
Under the new plan, water rates would increase 8% and sewer rates would increase 9.5% per 5,000 gallons with the start of the new fiscal year Nov. 1, 2022, and again in 2023 and 2024, Stewart said.
Source: The Advocate
Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory has been practicing law while in office, even likely during his three-week rehab program, and he has failed to disclose a second law firm to the state Ethics Administration.
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The suit names Lafayette-based conservative activist Michael Lunsford and his organization Citizens for a New Louisiana, alongside another Facebook bomb thrower from Livingston Parish. The pair targeted a Livingston librarian with posts portraying her as a “pedophile.”
“Defendant Lunsford and Defendant CFANL have portrayed, and continue to portray, Amanda Jones as a criminal and a pedophile — one who supports dissemination of ‘pornographic materials’ to elementary school children,” the lawsuit alleges.
Source: The Advocate
There are some good ideas in this year’s proposed budget. And some really bad ones.
Since his election, the mayor-president has taught classes at UL, formed two LLCs and obtained a license to produce title insurance, on top of processing expungements for clients — all in search of supplementing his income.
In moving forward, the couple also answered to published reports questioning possible ethics violations about a company Guillory says his wife owns called WM&N.
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If the charter is amended in the future, City Councilwoman Liz Hebert said, the document needs to clarify what happens when a mayor-president is away for an extended period of time like Guillory was.
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Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils
Amanda Jones, a librarian at a middle school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that Facebook pages run by Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames falsely labeled her a pedophile who wants to teach 11-year-olds about anal sex.
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General admission to the Park remains free. Visitors who bike or walk can enter Moncus Park at no charge. Special Event parking rates will vary and be announced in advance.