COLUMN: The parish needs to raise taxes (don’t shoot the messenger)
Every part of parish government is underfunded. And there’s no way to fix it without raising taxes.
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News + Notes
Acadiana healthcare workers are exhausted from months of fighting a pandemic, misinformation and apathy
Pandemic fatigue for healthcare workers means exhaustion from months of long shifts, frustration at working uphill against a landslide of misinformation and fear that we’re giving up just as the end is in sight.
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Solution Hub: New Orleans actively releases videos of police shootings. Is it paying off with trust?
Since 2016, the NOPD, at one time among the most brutal and corrupt police forces in the country, has quickly and proactively released camera footage of police shootings and other critical incidents. The logic of the policy is simple: The videos are there for clarity, and transparency is the cornerstone of building community trust.
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Ballot Basics: What are those two Lafayette city sales tax ‘rededications’?
As far as legalese goes, the ballot language on these “rededications” is about as bad as it gets. Fear not. We’ve got it translated to plain English.
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Coronavirus trends match up with the indicators of Lafayette’s summer surge
Acadiana reported 121 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 Wednesday. That’s a 50% increase over the last week. The region had the third-most Covid hospitalizations, behind only the Shreveport and Monroe areas as of Tuesday.
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Ballot Basics: So what exactly does the Lafayette city marshal do?
Around half the readers we heard from say they don’t really know what the marshal does. Marshals don’t have much of a public face, but they have a big public function. Here are the basics.
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COLUMN: Coronavirus is rising, and Guillory is doing less than nothing to stop it
Instead of doing the bare minimum and enforcing existing guidelines, he’s blaming the medical community.
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Healthcare workers, how are you?
How are you feeling about the way things are going? What worries you? What doesn’t? What scares you? What gives you courage?
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Council Preview 11/18: A tax break, a city marshal, and four empty directors’ chairs
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Costs and the coronavirus could spur change of venue for Festival International in 2021
Festival staff members are sketching out alternatives that would allow the internationally acclaimed event to function in a socially distanced environment. That could even mean hosting Festival out of city limits or in scattered locations.
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