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Local Businessman Announces for Parish Council District 3
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Civic leader and Thibodaux business man, Westley Annis, announces his candidacy for Parish Council District 3. “Parish government has struggled for over twenty years to make the transition to a council form of government. The only way we will be...
Article posted on August 20, 2007 at 08:36 PM :: Comments to date:
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Free Campaign Advice
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) Lafourche Parish Councilman Daniel Lorraine has proven once again that he is not a...
Article posted on July 15, 2007 at 02:43 PM :: Comments to date:
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Dress Codes
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Lafourche Parish councilman Lindel Toups has introduced an ordinance that would make it illegal to wear low handing pants that expose underwear. Modeled after a similar law that was passed recently in Dalcambre, La. As a coincidental aside, on...
Article posted on June 27, 2007 at 09:35 PM :: Comments to date:
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Are Term Limits an Insult?
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Mike Gorman, City Editor for the Daily Comet, says he considers term limits “Voters’ ultimate insult”. His reasoning is that voters wield the power to vote anyone out of office. As he states, “We should be insulted whenever we are...
Article posted on May 12, 2007 at 02:54 PM :: Comments to date:
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Lafourche Parish Councilmen Propose Changes to Charter
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Two changes are being proposed to the Lafourche Parish Home Rule Charter. One doesn't go far enough, the other goes too far, and no one is talking about a third that should be considered also. Councilman Michael Matherne, District 3,...
Article posted on May 8, 2007 at 09:54 PM :: Comments to date:
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Spring 2007 Election Results
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Election results are in and the three tax propositions passed, Mike Billiot has been elected Councilman in the Town of Golden Meadow, and Eddie Hebert and Debbie Swanner are in a run-off for Councilman in the City of Thibodaux. Although...
Article posted on April 1, 2007 at 04:46 PM :: Comments to date:
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Why does it take so long?
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Equal Treatment screams the headline in the Saturday, February 24 edition of the Daily Comet. Equal treatment in this case is allowing a male student from H.L Bourgeois to bring his boyfriend to the junior prom using a couples ticket....
Article posted on February 24, 2007 at 06:28 PM :: Comments to date:
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Change the Lafourche Parish Home Rule Charter? You Bet!
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
The Daily Comet, in its February 2 editorial, rightly came out against changing the Lafourche Parishes Home Rule Charter to give more operations control to the council. I think the Charter should be changed, just not in the manner currently being discussed.
Article posted on February 2, 2007 at 07:06 PM :: Comments to date:
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