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Council advances plan to relocate 17-year-old offenders
The plan attempts to work around the legal limbo created by the Legislature this year when it revised criminal statutes to allow 17-year-olds to be charged and tried as adults.
The plan attempts to work around the legal limbo created by the Legislature this year when it revised criminal statutes to allow 17-year-olds to be charged and tried as adults.
Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet inherited more than half a billion of infrastructure projects. Her first budget signals that an infrastructure hangover has arrived.
State Sen. Blake Miguez, R-New Iberia, is picking a fight with the University of Louisiana Lafayette over its new off-campus gun-free zones.
Exposure to mold inside the home can lead to respiratory issues and make asthma worse. But in Louisiana, there are few protections for renters exposed to it.
Enforcement of a gun-free zone around Downtown’s science museum falls to university police, not the Lafayette Police Department, the Boulet administration announced Friday.
Texas-based developer David Starr has faced penalties and litigation related to low-income housing complexes owned by a web of nonprofits in his portfolio.
HUD puts troubled complex’s owner on notice that it is in default of Section 8 contract requiring it to provide residents with “decent, safe and sanitary” living conditions.
Bumps for police and fire salaries, juvenile detention, the airport, the library system and more are on the table.
Lafayette is adrift without a plan, public investment and or any real sense of purpose or priority.
M-P Monique Boulet is now seeking funds for a single position for two months, following the Parish Council’s rejection of a larger scale plan.
Lafayette’s lived through a financial fairy land the past few years. This budgets bursts the bubble.
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