Blow by Blow
Long considered adversaries, the wind and fossil fuel industries have more in common than you think.
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New biz park going up in Iberia
Iberia Economic Development Authority has purchased six acres to jump-start the development of a business park, Progress Point Business Park, near Acadiana Regional Airport. IEDA will purchase an additional 44 acres to be acquired this fall.
Moody’s gets moody on La. Medicaid crisis
July 26, 2012
\Moody’s Investors Service, a major bond ratings agency, is painting a gloomy picture of Louisiana’s future fiscal health due to the state’s loss of more than $850 million in Medicaid funding thanks to a federal miscalculation, calling the potential budget crisis a “credit negative.”
Shell Games
By Walter Pierce
July 26, 2012
Shell Oil Co. has learned the hard way how effective social media can be — at not only spreading your message but at distorting it.
N.O.-based Smoothie King sold to Korean group
By Leslie Turk
July 26, 2012
SK USA Inc., a division of Korea-based SK Group, bought controlling interest in Smoothie King Franchises Inc. of Metairie from co-founders Steve and Cindy Kuhnau. The Kuhnaus founded the company almost four decades ago.
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Alex Lege: 'The Cop Watcher'
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars. -
David Calhoun, ‘EB’ Brooks join Lafayette Central Park
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design. -
Update: PXP creating 600 jobs averaging 100k
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion. -
Today in awesome: ESA’s Caffery wins fellowship
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies. -
Zachary Barker takes helm of the Opportunity Machine
Zachary Barker continues making waves in Lafayette’s business scene, mostly recently being named director of the Opportunity Machine.
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COOL TOWN 2013
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it. -
A curious compact
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven. -
Pooyie 2012
It's good, it's bad and it's just plain crazy. -
Saving Saturday Night
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment. -
Posthaste vs. HART FORTENBERY
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.