Lafayette Parish needs more services and supports for individuals with mentally illness that deflect them from the criminal justice system and into appropriate interventions before they commit serious and sometimes violent crimes ...
The village of Loreauville on the banks of Bayou Teche is the latest to receive a floating canoe and kayak launch as part of the Bayou Teche National Water Trail ...
The Louisiana Legislature has been ideologically partisan, no doubt, but never more so than in a little-known resolution that was quietly passed in May ...
The Legislature has forgotten its priorities and failed in its most fundamental obligation: to protect the well-being of the state and its citizens ...
Once again, longtime American Press columnist emerges as voice of reason in debate over how to plug the state’s $600 million shortfall ...
Freshman councilwoman turning a bright idea into reality with safe space for online-sales exchanges ...
It’s feel-good Tea Party propaganda, folks, and it could pose a real risk to the fiscal health of LCG and the services it provides ...
Lafayette deserves the best chief of police that can be found, whether black or white ...
Can an ill-tempered, thrice-married billionaire dandy win the hearts of Louisiana evangelicals, much less rank-and-file voters? ...
Reginald Thomas probably would have made a terrific top cop, but we’ll never know ...
A budget that counts on private investment could count out completing the Connector any time soon ...
Drago's set to take over the location in August ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...
Six candidates vie for permanent job; no timeline released for selection process ...
