JindalCo's "scholarship" program is looking more like the boondoggle many feared it would be.The tally of private schools approved by the state Department of Education to accept voucher students reads like a who's-who of who's-that; one sees few big brand ...
The transition to web-based news continues to divorce journalists from their paychecks. The Times-Picayune is just the latest example. "Saddle up the dinosaurs, we're riding to Chernobyl!" The depressing chime of the death knell for ...
Politics making strange bedfellows is an abused cliche, but truth can often be divined in its bruises. The 5-4 vote hanging over the fate of the traffic camera program in Lafayette is proof. This is a simple way to give the city of Lafayette the ...
Slight is the distance between anti-gay crusader and gay Caribbean cruise. Much, but not enough, has been written about the Louisiana Family Forum's latest push back against the radical gay agenda. By radical gay agenda I mean gay people having the same ...
Proof that LCG's SafeLight/SafeSpeed program works is hard to dismiss. I'm not a fan of the SafeLight/SafeSpeed program in Lafayette. Nor am I an opponent. I don't have strong feelings about cameras mounted at traffic signals and in mobile vans because ...
Hardly, but if Assessor Conrad Comeaux ever catches up, parish coffers could be rolling in dough. Hardly, but if Assessor Conrad Comeaux ever catches up, parish coffers could be rolling in dough. By Walter Pierce Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 How much ...
Loaded and CodedBeware those who would bestow fiscal responsibility' on local government. At first blush it sounds like the simplest of concepts. Ensure expenses don't exceed income. Loaded and CodedBeware those who would bestow fiscal responsibility' ...
Let's Face ItIt's time to elevate the discourse at theind.com.By: Walter Pierce Let's Face ItIt's time to elevate the discourse at theind.com. By: Walter Pierce The end is nigh. On Friday, Dec. 16 - that's two days following the publication of this ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011Outgoing District 6 Councilman Sam Doré lost badly on Oct. 22. He couldn't be more thrilled. By Walter Pierce It seemed last Tuesday on the patio at Legends on Bertrand Drive as City-Parish Councilman Sam Doré endorsed ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011But in unincorporated Lafayette Parish, almost anything goes. I saw the plans last week for the garbage transfer station being built on Sunbeam Lane in north Lafayette. As the crow flies it's not far from my house near Four ...
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 ...
