Conversation: How about a hug?
After the last year, we could all use one. And if you and yours are fully vaccinated, it’s safe to share an embrace. But are you ready?
After the last year, we could all use one. And if you and yours are fully vaccinated, it’s safe to share an embrace. But are you ready?
Overwhelmingly, respondents said recent press accurately reflected Lafayette and that our community is getting worse.
A second effort at passing a local mask mandate failed on a 3-2 vote during a Tuesday emergency meeting of the Lafayette City Council. Losing co-sponsor Nanette Cook ahead of the meeting, the bill was dead on arrival and would have needed four “yes” votes to succeed and overcome a likely veto from Mayor-President Josh Guillory.
More than 3,000 calls flooded the council office, with two-thirds recording opposition. Misinformation about masking and the ordinance itself circulated wildly in the weeks since the effort was announced, though a draft of the ordinance didn’t materialize publicly until Monday.
Councilman Glenn Lazard pressed on despite the foregone failure, emphasizing that the mandate was necessary to force the administration’s hand into enforcement. Late last year, Guillory stood down local efforts to support the state’s mask mandate, and the state’s enforcement is itself virtually nonexistent.
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