VOICES: Who do you think you are?
Racism against Asian Americans is a Lafayette problem, too
Racism against Asian Americans is a Lafayette problem, too
LCG is pursuing five massive detention projects to address flooding in Lafayette Parish. One project would convert a sugar cane field into a 200-acre pond. Detention ponds hold water during storm events, slowing flows to the river and other drainage channels. In the floods 2016, water overflowed out of drainage channels and into thousands of homes.
LCG made public necessity declarations for five parcels, freezing them from commercial development while studies are completed. KLFY reports that public works officials have reviewed 90 sites, narrowing the field to 20, including the five currently under consideration.
A generational challenge has no easy solutions. But there are opportunities to pivot using what we already have at our disposal.
Hospitals reported 478 Covid patients Friday, the lowest total since March 2020. Louisiana’s third surge has steadily abated since hospitalizations peaked in January at 2,069. Acadiana, which at one time led the state in Covid hospitalizations, counted just 51 in-patients. The region has not reported fewer than 44 Covid hospitalizations since the end of March 2020, just weeks after the area confirmed its first cases. Vaccinations and improved therapies have dramatically cut hospital stays and mortality.
Launched as a pandemic pivot, Presto’s touchless medicine delivery service is expanding after an early run of success.
Despite growing supply, there are people who want vaccines and are struggling to get them.
Louisiana is expanding vaccine eligibility to include most adults with certain health conditions that put them at high risk. Announced Tuesday by Gov. John Bel Edwards, the new eligibility extends the age range in the high risk pool to as young as 16-years-old, substantially increasing the current priority group. Around 1.6 million people are estimated to now qualify. Below are the conditions listed in the update:
After the last year, we could all use one. And if you and yours are fully vaccinated, it’s safe to share an embrace. But are you ready?
The proportion of African Americans who’ve gotten their first vaccine shot continues to fall short both nationally and in Lafayette Parish.
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the city and parish councils.
We were already radical. Louisiana has historically been at the forefront of change.
A generational shift that raises an important question: How can we replace the jobs we’ve already lost and those we stand to lose in the future?
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