NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR: PAT COOPER
It’s difficult to say exactly when relations between the talented, capable and at-times mercurial administrator and a school board that once supported him began their inexorable slide toward enmity and rancor, but slide they did.
Status Quo v. Progress: A Fight to Control Our Schools
The last three years in Lafayette Parish have proven a difficult and tired road for longtime education advocates like Greg Davis, whose hard-fought efforts finally hit a brick wall as 2014 came to a close.
team member through various bank mergers, and as Community Reinvestment Act liaison for the Lafayette area. Nain attended UL Lafayette and is a longtime resident of Lafayette Parish. She serves as an auxiliary board member of the Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic and is a member of the Upper Lafayette Economic Development Association.
The Council of Petroleum Accountants Societies of Acadiana announced its 2015-2016 board of directors. President Alex Gray, joint interest supervisor with Stone Energy Corporation, is an LSU/UNO MBA graduate. Vice President Caroline D. Bonin, CFO advisory consultant with Caroline D. Bonin, is a UL Lafayette/Tulane MBA graduate with work experience in public accounting, banking and the oil and gas industry.
Reginald Thomas probably would have made a terrific top cop, but we’ll never know.
As he recovers from his failed congressional bid, Scott Angelle faces the possibility that both his lucrative board position at Sunoco Logistics and political future are in jeopardy.
CROSS WISE: Our Taxes Reflect Our Values
Lafayette’s use of sales taxes, which disproportionately affect the poor, is nearly tapped out. Will our schools suffer because of it?
How a visit from a federal regulator and boardroom intrigue ended Rusty Cloutier’s 33-year tenure at MidSouth Bank