New clarity to state guidelines that had shuttered hundreds of Lafayette businesses for weeks has already sprung open local shops, in effect beginning the first local thaw on commerce. But officials remain stark in their warnings to heed state orders to stay home and stay safe, sending a mixed message about the state of urgency.
Calling it his “safe shop policy,” Guillory said the guidance is needed to address the deluge of unemployment claims filed in recent weeks.
Louisiana is flattening the curve of the coronavirus, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday, based on decreased hospitalizations and ventilator use.
Source: Gov. Edwards: ‘We have flattened the curve,’ but must remain cautious
Populated with so many of Lafayette’s musicians, artists, cooks, bartenders and gig workers inexorably tied to the local cultural economy, routine life in Lafayette’s Freetown neighborhood is upended.
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the creation of Resilient Louisiana, a state commission charged with examining Louisiana’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic and making recommendations for more resilient business-related activities and commerce in the coming months.
Citing “unprecedented fiscal challenges,” Lafayette’s mayor-president is setting expectations for deep cuts.
Acadiana women are turning to shelters for help in higher numbers and, in many cases, showing up with more serious injuries, counselors and shelter operators say.
In Louisiana, 60% of the more than 1,000 deaths reported to date were African American. Locally, it’s hard to get a handle on how that trend is playing out.
Projections by the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank rank the Lafayette metro area as having the 20th highest percentage of jobs at high risk of unemployment due to the coronavirus out of the 150 largest metro areas in the country.
Diagnosed coronavirus cases across Louisiana climbed to 21,016 but with just 421 new cases, the fewest registered in a single day since March 29.
Cristina Martinez, an event planner and former radio show host, moonlights as a coronavirus reporter for Lafayette’s Spanish language community
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