Your tax dollars built this RaceTrac
Will anybody be celebrating the “sweet sixteen” birthday of the “Lafayette I-10 Corridor District at Mile Marker 103?” July 4, 2022 will mark sixteen years since the Lafayette City-Parish Council unanimously (Ordinance O-129-2006) breathed life into this...
Open letter to Lafayette’s downtown residents
There is an extreme amount of misinformation flowing out of the Downtown Lafayette Unlimited organization (directed by DDA). As a result, we felt it best to send a letter to nearly every single household in the Downtown Taxing District. I’m publishing it here as...
Lafayette residents should not lose sight of the next tax…
There has been much discussion over the most recent tax hike being placed on the ballot the weekend of Festival International. Despite the disinformation being spread it is an increase that will put the mileage rate at 15 mils, or a 50% increase over what has been...
DDA “Weaponizes” Public Records
Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a children’s game most of us are familiar with. The purpose of the game, of course, is to disorient the player and (to some degree) watch them fail miserably as they stumble forward attempting to register their successful pin. That is...
No fiscal impact?
There is new construction on the Lafayette Middle School campus! But what is being built, how it came about and how much it cost may come as a bit of a surprise to you. This project has been in the works for nearly three years now. Rewind your government clock back to...
Citizens for a New Louisiana is making government more transparent, one parish at a time. Will you become a part of the solution?
Critical Acclaim
National Public Radio
Citizens for a New Louisiana [is] the same group behind the conservative takeover of the Lafayette library board.
Times-Picayune
Michael Lunsford, a Christian activist and executive director of the conservative Citizens for a New Louisiana, advocates for government transparency.
Book Riot
The mention of signage sounded eerily similar to the display controversy in Lafayette Parish, which was created by Citizens for a New Louisiana.
National Public Radio
Lunsford spent years raising the heat leading a stealthy but steady campaign that replaced members of the library board who, from his perspective, were not quite on board.
The (UK) Independent
Mr Lunsford’s appeal prompted the parish library director to move the [erotic] book[s] from teen nonfiction sections to adult nonfiction sections
