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After the “fix” are maps STILL wrong?

After the “fix” are maps STILL wrong?

This crazy mantra from the fixers is starting to get old. It was repeated over and over during the court case against LCG's bungling attempt to fix their own charter with an ordinance. The maps were right, they said, it's just the descriptions that were wrong. It was...

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LCG’s 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is out

LCG’s 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is out

Lafayette Consolidate Government's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is out! (Click the red text to download your own copy). This is one of the best places to find high-level mis-prioritized spending going on inside LCG. A few key points we discussed earlier...

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Council diverts $10 million from drainage, roads, and bridges

Council diverts $10 million from drainage, roads, and bridges

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Way back on January 22nd, numerous members of the LCG council announced their intention to rededicate $18 million of the Library's surplus to road and bridge maintenance and drainage improvement projects. Even then, Councilman Bruce Conque suggested reducing the...

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Unelected bureaucrats to raise taxes in Iberia

Unelected bureaucrats to raise taxes in Iberia

Voters are unwilling to pass new taxes. As percentages or sales or property values, taxes go up automatically ever year already. Bureaucrats are looking for new revenue sources. Iberia Parish's proposal would allow bureaucrats to raise taxes without a vote of the...

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Great Scott! It’s ANOTHER tax!

Great Scott! It’s ANOTHER tax!

"Let the voters decide," seems to be a never-ending mantra from government officials who keep putting taxes on the ballot. Never you mind that they voted to put a tax on the ballot. No, that's not raising taxes, they'll tell you, because the "voters must decide."...

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This is NOT reapportionment

This is NOT reapportionment

While the council may have previously reapportioned by ordinance (per state law) when the voters in a precinct exceed 2,200, or fall below 300. Neither of those things have happened here, therefore this does not fit the definition of reapportionment.  We delved into...

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AG Opinion Imminent

AG Opinion Imminent

It was two weeks ago that the City-Parish Council narrowly defeated a resolution calling for the Louisiana Attorney General to weigh in on the charter "fix" debacle that seems to be dragging on forever. The deciding vote on that resolution was cast by Liz Webb-Hebert,...

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Citizens for a New Louisiana
After the “fix” are maps STILL wrong?
LCG’s 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is out
Did LCG council show up with the wrong briefcase?
Library: no statement after director “competence” meeting
Just Mens Shoes
Six ask judge: allow LCG to rewrite charter ballot AFTER it passed!
Council diverts $10 million from drainage, roads, and bridges
EXO Drones
Unelected bureaucrats to raise taxes in Iberia
Great Scott! It’s ANOTHER tax!
This is NOT reapportionment
AG Opinion Imminent
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