Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Greg Davis came within a hair of winning the District 2 school board seat. Lafayette came within a hair of reform. By Walter Pierce Greg Davis is nothing if not resilient. This newspaper's admiration for the Cajundome director ...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Politics gives, and it serves crow. By Walter PierceWe hitch our buggy to initiatives we believe will advance the quality of life in our community. We advocate for them tacitly, and in the case of the school board election ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010Lafayette bought into consolidation and downtown nightlife. Now we're having second thoughts. By Walter PierceIt's fair to say our hamlet is suffering from buyer's remorse for a pair of purchases we made in the '90s. Wednesday ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010Endorsements may put us in foul trouble, but the school board election is too important not to take a shot. By Walter PierceIn the seven years since this weekly newspaper's inception, this is the first time it's making endorsements ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010Facebook users capture Lafayette's zeitgeist. By Walter Pierce I'm perilously close to eclipsing the 300 "friend" plateau on Facebook, and perilously close to quitting Facebook. To my "friends": I don't care that you're in ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010Written by Walter PierceIs the downtown club a menace, or is there something sinister going on here?Something's not sitting right with downtown nightclub Karma facing a two-year revocation of its liquor license. Yanking a bar's ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010Written by Walter PierceWith neither gridlock nor gridiron, the charter commission is off to a dull start.The Lafayette Charter Commission got back to work Monday after a two-week hiatus necessitated by City-Parish Council ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010Written by Walter PierceRep. Rickey Hardy should be applauded for helping blow the lid on the LHA.Our ongoing coverage, including in today's issue, of the mess at the Lafayette Housing Authority - the lack of oversight, the evidently ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010Written by Walter PierceUL Lafayette is planning for the future by preparing for the worst.Charitably, let's think of tomorrow's public policy forum in Baton Rouge hosted by the League of Women Voters as the end of the beginning ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010Written by Walter PierceLafayette voters could be asked to extend the current terms of some of our elected officials.If you like your representative on the City-Parish Council, or if you like City-Parish President Joey Durel ...
A budget that counts on private investment could count out completing the Connector any time soon ...
Drago's set to take over the location in August ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...
Six candidates vie for permanent job; no timeline released for selection process ...
