A review committee has recommended City-Parish President Joey Durel award a $390,000 contract to provide GPS monitoring of city vehicles to GPS Insight of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Calling it “the most challenging of the seven budgets I have sent to the council for consideration,” City-Parish President Joey Durel Thursday unveiled a 2010-2011 budget that totals roughly $610 million dollars and includes notable new commitments to Lafayette’s cultural and recreational life.
A story in the August issue of ABiz, published Wednesday, incorrectly identified the school involved in the high-profile case concerning a school counselor’s alleged inappropriate relationship with a minor student.
I’m not so sure the heads of the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation would appreciate being compared to Machiavelli.
The Lafayette City-Parish Council will receive City-Parish President Joey Durel’s proposed budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year during a meeting Thursday evening in the council auditorium.
Thinking of making a major purchase? You might want to wait till the first weekend in August, when you can forgo the 4-cent state sales tax on the first $2,500 you spend.
The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce is bringing its Energy Division back into its programming, promoting and protecting not only the oil and gas industry but also now encouraging the development of alternative sources of energy.
The Times Picayune has been traveling Cajun country's "smoked meat highway," through its contributing writer, also Independent Weekly staffer, Mary Tutwiler.
