Recap: How 2022 left Guillory’s drainage program in a deep hole
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.
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Politics
Council Preview: Performing arts center and public records back on city agenda
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Column: Lafayette should hold Guillory’s horses on new Heymann Center
Mayor-President Josh Guillory is short-circuiting the site selection process in announcing a “tentative” deal with UL.
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Council Preview: LCG pay raises; new garbage contract
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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The ‘People’s Court’: How Lafayette City Court works
What happens in Lafayette City Court can have a substantial impact on people’s lives. The setting is intimate, meaning judges play an even bigger and more personal role in what’s often called the People’s Court.
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Council Preview: City Council wants to talk public records
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Dismissed in 2013, Guillory was rehired by UL after his election
The mayor-president’s return to teaching after being fired for cause presents several potential conflicts, including charter requirements that his job be full-time. Deploying Lafayette police officers to run security while on campus, a use of public resources for his personal benefit, figures into the City Council’s investigation of him.
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COLUMN: Guillory is leading LUS Fiber on a path to insolvency
LUS Fiber is budgeted to spend millions on expansions and make a discretionary payment into the city general fund for the first time ever. Fiber can’t afford to do that.
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Paywalled: Records requests cost hundreds each under new LCG policy
The Current was billed more than $900 for a pair of requests filed last month. According to LCG’s new policy, not yet published, the invoice must be paid before digital copies of the documents are turned over.
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FBI said to be probing LCG drainage contractor, potential relationship with Mayor-President Josh Guillory
The FBI has joined two federal agencies scrutinizing Lafayette’s drainage projects, this time with an eye on the relationship between the contractor and Mayor-President Josh Guillory.
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Josh Guillory turns to side hustles for more income
Since his election, the mayor-president has taught classes at UL, formed two LLCs and obtained a license to produce title insurance, on top of processing expungements for clients — all in search of supplementing his income.
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Council Preview: Budget hearing; $16 million for University Avenue
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils
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