After a quiet August, forecasters expect 1-3 named storms in the next few days.
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‘Significant baby step’ teed up for Evangeline corridor neighborhoods
Lafayette is on the verge of investing millions in urban core neighborhoods set to be traversed by the I-49 Connector.
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Brief: Get caught up on Guillory’s mounting controversies
Local media turned up the heat on the mayor-president in August, reporting that may be turning into big-time investigations.
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The five-member City Council will vote on a resolution authorizing the audit and investigation, as well as an ordinance providing funding for an outside firm to conduct the operation, according to City Council Chair Nanette Cook. The move comes more than two months after Guillory refused to answer a list of questions about the projects submitted by Cook and other council members on June 7.
Source: The Advertiser
Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan promises ‘targeted relief.’ Are you eligible?
The unprecedented maneuver by Biden should reach over 43 million borrowers and even wipe out loan repayments for some. Are you eligible?
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FBI said to be probing LCG drainage contractor, potential relationship with Mayor-President Josh Guillory
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.
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Northside grocery stores have disappeared. Here’s a plan to bring them back.
A local food desert initiative is developing a fund to put grocery stores back on Northside neighborhood blocks.
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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.
Source: The Advertiser
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
COLUMN: Five ways the councils should fix the budget
There are some good ideas in this year’s proposed budget. And some really bad ones.
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Josh Guillory turns to side hustles for more income
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.
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