Should Lafayette stop partying at midnight on Mardi Gras?
Lafayette may stop alcohol sales at midnight on Mardi Gras day. Tell us what you think.
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Downtown
What keeps young people in Lafayette? Culture, food and family.
While things have been looking pessimistic for youth retention, young folks say they haven’t given up on Lafayette just yet.
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COLUMN: Festival International is a testament to Lafayette’s capacity for collective action
Festival International made me want to live in Lafayette. Every Festival since then has only reaffirmed that feeling. It will always hold a special place in my heart. But what makes Festival so special to me isn’t just that it’s one of the best music festivals on the planet. What makes Festival so special to […]
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GEOFF DAILY: Lafayette mayor-presidents have long used vetoes to appropriate money. That may be illegal.
Legislative bodies appropriate money, not the executive branch. But that’s exactly what’s been happening at LCG for more than a decade in conflict with a pair of attorney general opinions.
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Lafayette councils approve bullish budget for 2022
Lafayette’s city and parish councils made minor changes to the administration’s budget, approving the mayor-president’s spending plan and revenue projections unanimously.
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UPDATE: Mouton statue to come down Saturday at 11 a.m.
LCG and the United Daughters of the Confederacy agreed to terms Thursday.
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Council Preview 12/2: More money for the Less Pay redevelopment, Downtown curfew for minors, revising the UDC
The gist: A relatively lightweight pair of council meetings is again on deck this week: another developer looking for more public subsidies, new grants for the police department, and the administration seeking to establish new restrictions on minors relative to their use of electric bikes and scooters and late-night access to Downtown. Bigger news is […]
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Parish Council told it’s too broke to improve early voting, jail or courthouse
Only a few weeks in, and the new Parish Council is beginning to grapple with its budget woes.
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Dark Roux chef isn’t making a fuss with new restaurant
Vestal will be a far cry from Ryan Trahan’s previous restaurant, with a more casual atmosphere and approachable menu.
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The Real Housewives of Windsor
A local reimagining of Shakespeare’s catty comedy teases out low drama and reality TV trash.
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Overnight downpour floods streets and homes in Lafayette areas spared in 2016
The gist: Intense rainfall hovered over central Lafayette neighborhoods, raising waters from drainage systems into homes that haven’t taken water in decades and onto streets that stayed relatively dry in 2016.
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Redevelopment of the old federal courthouse hits the skids
The gist: For a couple of months, it seemed Lafayette’s “monument to indecision” was finally about to come unstuck. A deal to sell the old federal courthouse Downtown for private redevelopment was presented to the City-Parish Council Tuesday night, and the council tabled it until Nov. 20, sending the deal back to the administration for […]
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