LAFAYETTE PARISH: Local Fall Elections
Qualifying for Lafayette Parish’s 2026 local elections has ended, and before a single ballot is cast, dozens of races are already over. While voters will head to the polls on November 3 to decide some of the parish’s most consequential offices, a review of...
Three Growing Cities. Three Big Budgets. One Big Question.
It is that time of year again — three municipalities in Lafayette Parish recently adopted their annual budgets. So, we decided to dive in. We listened to the budget hearings, we reviewed the budget documents, and we are ready to report our findings to you. Financial...
YOUNGSVILLE: Celebrated Detective Who Helped Arrest Child Predators Removed
Just two days after Youngsville Chief of Police JP Broussard publicly praised his detectives for arresting alleged child predators, he reassigned the department’s only full-time criminal investigator—the same detective who had just filed a hostile work...
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Kenneth Boudreaux’s Accountability Game
Here he goes again. On May 5, 2026, Lafayette City Council Chairman Kenneth “Comedy Hour” Boudreaux issued a press release celebrating a reduction in the number of Lafayette Consolidated Government audit findings. According to Boudreaux, the improvement...
Are Louisiana Cities Paying Officials Illegally?
Public records requests submitted to four Lafayette Parish municipalities uncovered an unexpected problem. Two cities could not produce the ordinances that Louisiana law appears to require before municipal officers may legally be paid. Two others handled the issue...
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