Recap: Where Lafayette made progress in 2022
We’ve seen promise all over our community, including efforts to tackle Lafayette’s mountain of blighted properties, its mounting fentanyl deaths, food insecurity and more.
We’ve seen promise all over our community, including efforts to tackle Lafayette’s mountain of blighted properties, its mounting fentanyl deaths, food insecurity and more.
Looking back, we uncovered a program plagued with problems: conflicts of interest, disregard for public accountability processes and a lack of proven need or efficacy.
While things have been looking pessimistic for youth retention, young folks say they haven’t given up on Lafayette just yet.
Most costs will stay on LCG’s books. That turns the idea from a budget-saving blessing into a fiscal Hail Mary.
We heard what’s driving you out of Lafayette—now we want to know what’s keeping you here. What is Lafayette doing right?
Young folks don’t necessarily want to leave Lafayette. But they say it feels impossible to stay.
Traffic, local government and the weather are near the top of Geoff Daily’s Thanksgiving list.
Weigh in and get tickets to the Undercurrent Awards.
Lafayette schools got improved marks on their 2022 report card. None of the district’s schools regressed by letter grade since 2019.
It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar problem.
Supporters of the amendment say its rejection should not be interpreted as how people in Louisiana feel about slavery, involuntary servitude or forced prison labor.
Read the winning entry for the Southern Screen 2022 Writing Competition, presented by The Current and the National Writing Project of Acadiana
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