Unbalancing the Books: Carencro’s Pas Bon Festival Doesn’t Add Up
For months, Citizens for a New Louisiana has been raising questions about Carencro’s handling of the C’est Bon Seasoning Festival. We were told nothing was wrong. Everything was above board. Critics simply didn’t understand what they were looking at. The auditors...
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...
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...
Kenneth Boudreaux Has Turned Mardi Gras into a Political Circus
We just finished telling our families the same thing many of you probably did: “No politics at the Thanksgiving table.” Holidays are supposed to be breaks from the political circus rather than extensions of it. But apparently someone forgot to extend the usual holiday...
Blanchardville: Lafayette’s Downtown Whiplash at 444 Jefferson
In August, Downtown Development Authority CEO Kevin Blanchard emailed developer Cliff Guidry to thank him for revising his plans for 444 Jefferson Street—the former home of the Handy Stop grocery store—and for working with DDA staff to make the project more...
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