Boulet’s 100-day goals: staffing and stability
Where her predecessor and erstwhile opponent made a splash within days of taking office, Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is entering with a calculated ripple.
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Lafayette City Court
Unfinished business looms large over incoming Boulet administration
Boulet takes office with a to-do list full of costly, difficult and politically-complicated challenges left over from Guillory’s single term in office.
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Facing deadline, City Court move stalled by costly renovation
LCG has until Friday to decide on buying the Lemoine Building for $6.2 million, but City Council members are hesitant to commit to an estimated $9.6 million renovation.
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Council Preview: $9.5M to move City Court; Sunday morning beer sales
Lafayette’s City Council is set to vote Tuesday on setting aside $9.5 million to buy a new building for City Court, while both councils will look at allowing Sunday morning beer sales.
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Edwards, a retired 15th Judicial District Court judge, defeated Roya Boustany, a felony prosecutor in the 15th Judicial District Court district attorney’s office, Saturday in a city-wide runoff to fill the vacancy created a year ago when Michelle Odinet resigned under pressure after a home video surfaced of her using a racial slur to describe an alleged burglar at her home.
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McGoffin is considered a local expert on the state’s public records and open meetings laws. He has represented two local news organizations, The Current and The Daily Advertiser, in lawsuits against LCG over public records, including a January lawsuit over documents pertaining to the firing of Sgt. Wayne Griffin, who was appointed by Guillory in October to serve as interim police chief, then was fired in January following an internal investigation into alleged sexual harassment.
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Feuding judges, budget battles, questionable expenses gridlock Lafayette City Court
As tensions flared between Lafayette’s two city court judges, Odinet and Saloom, the Louisiana Supreme Court stepped in and appointed a special judge to serve as tie-breaker over administrative matters of the court.
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Catch up: Odinet comes clean and takes unpaid leave
There is no longer any doubt. Judge Michelle Odinet used the n-word in a video of her family cheering a thwarted burglary attempt at their home.
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Racist remarks captured in video of Lafayette judge’s family cheering footage of foiled burglary
In the clip, which Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet confirmed to be in her home, witnesses jokingly toss around racial slurs while narrating home security footage of their efforts to stop a man from breaking into a car on their driveway.
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12/1 Council Preview: Parish Council spends more ARPA money, library board appointment, flood control, LPSS transit agreement
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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11/2 Council Preview: Parish Council moves on more ARPA fund; Lafayette police training update
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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The Pope chapter behind them, Lafayette marshals await runoff election
Pope’s crimes and vanity hung a cloud over a small agency used to operating mostly out of public view. Pope now in prison out of parish and a new marshal is soon to be elected, the office is primed for a new chapter.
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