Covid still holds back Lafayette bus service
More than two years since Louisiana reported its first Covid case, Lafayette’s bus service remains short on drivers and riders.
More than two years since Louisiana reported its first Covid case, Lafayette’s bus service remains short on drivers and riders.
Lafayette’s Josh Edmond is a shining example of what it means to take ownership of your community — one piece of trash at a time.
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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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