The Meeting Before the Storm: What LPSS Leadership Knew and When They Knew It
In mid-January 2025, as questions about construction spending quietly mounted inside the Lafayette Parish School System, the school board and senior administrators gathered for a two-day training more than an hour away from Lafayette. The meeting took place January...
Iberia Parish Can’t Account for $325,000 in Opioid Funds
When Iberia Parish agreed to accept opioid settlement funds, it didn’t just accept money. It accepted legal obligations. Those obligations are spelled out clearly — in parish resolutions, in the statewide opioid Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and in the...
Abbeville’s Reckoning: When Broken Promises Finally Come Due
For nearly five years, Abbeville’s leaders have tried to pretend this fight was about accounting or paperwork. It isn’t. It’s about whether a city that took tax money from its citizens and labor from its police officers can now escape the promises it made to both....
Paradise Lost: Lafayette’s Downtown Authority Overplays Its Hand
If Lafayette ever needed proof that confusion in government is contagious, the Downtown Development Authority has now supplied it in writing. For years, the DDA has behaved like the unquestioned guardian of downtown — a sort of Jefferson Street Vatican we’ve taken to...
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