by Editorial Staff | Feb 12, 2026 | Lafayette, LPSS, Sunshine
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...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 10, 2026 | Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Sunshine
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...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 3, 2026 | Sunshine, Vermilion Parish
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....
by Michael Lunsford | Jan 30, 2026 | Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine
Blake Miguez is publicly praised as a conservative standard-bearer by the same group now funding attacks against him. For years, we have watched a strange and increasingly destructive phenomenon take hold inside Louisiana’s political landscape: a small but noisy...
by Michael Lunsford | Jan 20, 2026 | Sunshine, Youngsville
Last week, the Youngsville community erupted over the impending police civil service hearing. That reaction followed several electronic billboard advertisements created expressly to accomplish that purpose. In fact, I’ve witnessed a recording implicating...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 5, 2026 | Sunshine, Youngsville
For nearly three years, Youngsville officials treated a violent police encounter as a problem best handled quietly — through lawyers, executive sessions, and institutional delay. That strategy has now failed. Former YPD Officer Eric Segura Charged With Malfeasance in...