Wednesday, May 25, 2011We have great leaders in key positions throughout our community. It's time for the school board to do its part. By Cherry Fisher MayThe phalanx of leadership in this community is collectively as highly effective at this moment as ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011Sponsors join forces to honor the architects and designers of our present and futureCiting diverse projects from Lafayette's gleaming new Acadiana Center for the Arts to a historic renovation in Eunice, Independent Weekly Co-Publisher ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011Already halfway to its $4.7 million goal, the university turns to best-selling author Rebecca Wells - and all of us - to help make the mark. By Cherry Fisher MayI hardly knew what to expect. Dr. Duleep Delpechitre, professor of ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011A growing number of global experts make the case for this cheap, abundant, clean-burning energy option.There have been no new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island shut down that electrical ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011The president says the fuel has a role in our energy future, but try finding that message in his administration's policies. By Cherry Fisher May In the wake of Egypt's 18-day revolution, we watch and wait as popular protests ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011Every district for elective office at the state, regional and local levels are about to be redrawn. What happens in the next three months will chart our future for a decade.The day of reckoning is nigh. For the past three years ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010In January you will take an oath to fulfill the profound duty of charting the future of our community at the most intimate level of government service. You were elected or re-elected to serve 30,000 students in Lafayette Parish ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010Holding his cards until the last minute may be clever politics for the governor, but it seriously threatens good decision-making for the rest of us. From the "embarrassment of riches" of the early Treen administration to the ...
Will the World Delta Dialogues be enough to save America's - and Louisiana's - wetlands? By Cherry Fisher MayEven a reluctant student of history is usually at least curious about the many civilizations and societies that have disappeared since the dawn ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010Will the new school board take our system to the top?The success of Lafayette's public schools is important to us all, and hopefully voter turnout will be strong for this Saturday's school board election. The outcome will ...
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 ...
