Yes, Josh Guillory can stop the taxing districts
Many regular readers will remember that the council introduced five new tax districts on November 19th. That was only THREE-DAYS after they were re-elected on November 16th. After all, they couldn’t very well have announced their intention to immediately raise...
Team Carlee’s revenge?
Reminder: red text links to source material. No one expected that the Lafayette Republican Party would be the point of the spear in Lafayette’s recent Mayoral race. That’s because their engagement was far and above what any local party has attained across...
CAUGHT! Lafayette council violated public notice laws
Update: The City-Parish council has now successfully called two special (emergency) meetings to finalize these taxes just days before their term expires. One is set for January 2nd, and the second for January 3rd. The inauguration of the new councils...
Merry Christmas – New taxes move to final approval on Friday!
Update: it appears that Bruce Conque has canceled his request for an emergency meeting to ram through these new taxes. Just like we saw with the two-week vote on “fix the charter,” the delay is due to Bruce’s favorable votes crew not being available...
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
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
NBC News
Citizens for a New Louisiana spoke at the meeting in favor of restrictions on books with sexual content.
EBR Republican Women
Professional, honest summary & analysis of events! This inside information & back story makes for a very good read.
Acadiana Advocate
Citizens, whose executive director is ... Michael Lunsford, is a conservative "good government" operation that started in Lafayette and is expanding across the state. Its latest crusade is pushing for tighter controls on the books and other materials minors are allowed to access in public libraries.
Insider (Great Britain)
Lunsford and CNL have had an outsize influence on Louisiana libraries.
