Showing that last year’s quality of life survey commissioned by One Acadiana were not some sort of anomaly, 71% of respondents rated the overall quality of life in the parish total positive, nearly duplicating the 72% that gave a similar response in the previous poll.
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Kennedy’s announcement comes less than a week after he won reelection to a second six-year term in the Senate in a landslide with 62%.
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School officials most recently sold its central warehouse space as part of its property sale at 113 Chaplin Drive to the Lafayette Airport Commission but has been since leasing the space until it could find a permanent space.
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Edwards took the edge on Election Day. But his margin was slim, just under 1,000 votes.
More than 1.3 million residents voted Tuesday, reelecting the state’s Republican-heavy congressional delegation.
Representatives from SOS Kyle Ardoin’s office did not say what was causing the issue, such as higher traffic from users. They also did not say how widespread the problem was.
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Louisiana’s state Republican Party has endorsed GOP Attorney General Jeff Landry in the 2023 governor’s race to the chagrin of other top potential candidates who claim Landry is trying to rig the campaign before everyone is at the gate.
As first reported by LaPolitics Weekly, the Louisiana Republican Party executive committee voted Sunday night to endorse Landry in an effort to coalesce support behind a single candidate.
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Requests for pills shipped from overseas to Louisiana residents rose by nearly 170%, according to a new analysis of the shipments of abortion pills that was published in JAMA on Monday.
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In all, 42 people held at Ware over the last 25 years described being sexually abused by staff members; 30 employees were identified through interviews and records as having sexually abused children at Ware over that time. A majority of those interviewed said that guards had routinely punished, degraded or inflicted pain.
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The first-term mayor-president’s omissions at issue in the agency’s notices of delinquency centered around a trio of limited-liability companies owned by Guillory, his wife Jamie and their family members.
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