Wednesday, June 15, 2011A middle school special-ed teacher from Haynesville has her eye on the most unlikely prize - the governor's mansion. By Walter Pierce Tara Hollis is running for governor. Of Louisiana.My reaction when a campaign announcement from ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011A state Senate committee erred in choosing to let stand the Louisiana Science Education Act. By Walter PierceIt was a dogged by phonies show in the Hainkel Room at the state Capitol last week as the Senate Education Committee heard ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011The only thing Louisiana's next schools superintendent needs to build is momentum for reform. By Walter PiercePaul Pastorek looked like a broken man in the photograph on last Wednesday's Advocate front page. Taken at the press conference ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011A Lafayette civic group makes a strong case for holding off on new taxes for our public schools. Will the board listen?The name may be polarizing, but 100 Black Men of Greater Lafayette's recent request of the Lafayette Parish ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011How do we measure the impact of the BP spill, which began one year ago today, April 20, with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig - a blast that killed 11 men and opened the spigot on the worst environmental disaster in ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011Could anti-tax sentiment in Lafayette deal a blow to our already dilapidated school facilities? You betcha! By Walter PierceGet ready for the tea to come to a boil, and it could be Lafayette's public school children who get scalded.It's ...
Wednesday, Apirl 6, 2011Like tax havens in the Caribbean, property classifications allow often wealthy landowners to dodge their fair share.In the recent annals of irony, few stand out more than the genesis for this week's cover story about Lafayette ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011Readers slammed us for slamming Rep. Rickey Hardy's embrace of what we're officially dubbing the piss poor proposal.'We gave state Rep. Rickey Hardy, D-Lafayette, a drubbing last week in Pooyie! - labeling him that week's Couillon ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011We may not be quite there yet, but Lafayette is nearing a sustainable, self-perpetuating state of just right.When I moved back from New Orleans in 1987, Lafayette was a different city than it is today. I had been away four years ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011The governor is leaning on one-time dollars, contingencies and state employees to balance the budget.At first blush, Gov. Bobby Jindal's $24.9 billion budget is giving even members of his own party the willies. "This thing is ...
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 ...
