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Column: LUS Fiber is in trouble
If you skimmed LUS Fiber’s annual report, you might think things are going great. But read a little deeper and a troubling picture emerges.
If you skimmed LUS Fiber’s annual report, you might think things are going great. But read a little deeper and a troubling picture emerges.
LUS Fiber was a key part of Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet’s ascension, but she may face a messy path to finding it a new leader.
LUS Fiber was finally squeezed in at the 11th hour to a bill creating an ambitious grant program to provide broadband service to deprived areas of the state, overcoming complaints about competition between the public and private sectors.
After a roughshod search, the Guillory administration appointed LUS Fiber’s first-ever independent director, moving forward with a hire against the advice of its expert consultant.
The past and current mayor-president have used loopholes to appoint unqualified directors for LUS and LUS Fiber without the City Council’s approval.
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