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He won’t be returning these Christmas gifts from LCG
As the season of family gatherings, food, and giving winds down, receivers of gifts are assessing which to keep and which to return. For a fortunate few, it's time to pull out the adding machine to help tabulate just how well they did. One of those will be SUN...
Citizens for a New Louisiana opens Baton Rouge chapter
2021 is looking bright for government transparency, as Citizens for a New Louisiana adds a new chapter in Baton Rouge. Having an office at our state's capitol, and in the literal shadow of the capitol building, will help us to bring you closer to the action when...
Show me the money: Library annual payroll spikes by $3.5 MILLION
In a recent article, we showed you three places where the parish could recover nearly $9 MILLION in revenue for the general fund. Not to be outdone, an author on a local "news" website keeps saying that all of this is fantastic and impossible. These are the same...
How to fix Lafayette Parish’s budget without raising taxes
Way back in 1930, Sir Ernest Benn mused that "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." Certainly, bureaucrats are always finding problems; and they always have the same solution...
VETO! Mayor-President Guillory blocks higher taxes
The other day we told you about a 7.5% tax increase that the councils would decide about on September 1st, 2020. The reason for this increase is to account for commercial property values substantially decreasing this year. This is especially thanks to the governor...
Two perspectives on tonight’s tax increase
Today in an epic meeting between the two opposing sides of the tax increase issue, Parish Council Chairman Kevin Naquin and Citizens for a New Louisiana's Michael Lunsford address the the same taxation issue from two different perspectives.
Unprecedented 8% tax increases on Tuesday!
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, the City and Parish Council agendas include unprecedented tax increases of around eight-percent (8%). What makes this unique isn't the amount of the increase, but that, for the first time in the history of the Lafayette councils, they...
CAUGHT! Lafayette council violated public notice laws
Update: The City-Parish council has now successfully called two special (emergency) meetings to finalize these taxes just days before their term expires. One is set for January 2nd, and the second for January 3rd. The inauguration of the new councils...
Kenneth Boudreaux’s $2.3 million conflict of interest
Term-limited Lafayette City-Parish Councilman Kenneth Boudreaux didn't run for re-election this last time around. His twelve-years of "service" will end with an exclamation point: a brand new library that nobody wants or needs. He's been friendly to raising taxes...
CAUGHT: Did LCG Councilmen violate open meetings laws?
The council has been quick to complain about the Mayor-President having closed door meetings with potential vendors on various projects. One that should come to mind easily is the LUS Bernhard deal. The Mayor-President having closed door meetings generally isn't a...
