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Tale Of The Tape: Mother Says This Is No Way To Treat A Child

Posted 09.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Michelle Droddy, Classroom-Disruptions, Video, Louisiana Schools, Lafayette, Student Abuse, Elementary School, Teachers, Substitute Teacher, Duct Tape, Home News

The mother of a Louisiana fourth grader whose mouth was taped shut by a substitute teacher who wanted to stop him from talking in class is seeking to ...

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Jobs Lost to Deep Drilling Ban Less Than Predicted

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: New Orleans, Gno, Workers, Africa, Houma, Senator Mary Landrieu, Inc., Rigs, Clean Energy, Deepwater Moratorium, Louisiana State University, Boemre, U.S. Dept. Of Interior, Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, Lafayette, BP Oil Spill, Business News
Susan Buchanan

The Gulf Coast remains banged up and broken from BP's spill. But worries that Louisiana workers would be hit hard by the federal drilling ban still haven't materialized.

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Next mayor of Lafayette: Frank Phillips

Daily Camera. | Daily Camera | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Lafayette, Home News

The city's current longest-serving councilman, Frank Phillips, was chosen by his colleagues Tuesday night to be the next mayor....

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Lafayette's Tellory Foods acquired by Sartoni Foods

Daily Camera. | Daily Camera | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Lafayette, T Wisconsin, Home News

Wisconsin-based Sartoni Foods on Monday acquired Tellory Foods, a Lafayette-based maker of pesto, dips and spreads, for an undisclosed sun....

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PHOTOS: 13 Best Cities for Jobs: The Milken Institute

The Huffington Post | Nicole Hardesty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Milken Institute, Lafayette, Economy, Austin, San Antonio, Jobs, Brownsville, Huntsville, Houston, Ross Devol, Anchorage, Fort-Hood, Best Performing Cities, Slidepollajax, Business Climates, Cities, Raleigh, Business News

Would you move to Fort-Hood, Texas if it meant finally finding a job? The Milken Institute released its annual Best Performing Cities 2010 report this...

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True Blood Is Making Me Want To Be a Vegan

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: HBO's True Blood, HappyHerbivore.Com, The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, Vampires, Vegan Recipes, Southern Comfort, Veggie Biscuit Pot Pie, Vegan Mac N' Cheese, HBO True Blood, Lindsay Nixon, Charlaine Harris, Lafayette, Humans, Vegan Diet, True Blood, Vegan Entertaining, Happy Herbivore, Synthetic Blood Drink, Southern Vegan Recipes, Doctor Who, Bill Compton, Vegan Drink, Andrea Chalupa, Entertainment News
Andrea Chalupa

Eating meat and watching True Blood doesn't always sit well, so in the spirit of the conscientious Bill Compton, our Sunday's have gone vegan.

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ANOTHER RTD Crash Results In Hospitalization; Driver In Saturday Accident Faces Charges

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Bus Crash Charges, Lafayette, RTD Accidents, Aurora Bus Crash, Tideneykiyalesh Hawariyat, RTD Deaths, Denver Bus Crash, Rtd, Denver News, Denver Rtd Accident, Rtd Accident, Rtd Bus Accident, Denver News

UPDATE: Marvin "Chip" Webb, the bicyclist in injured during a collision with and RTD bus Tuesday night, died on Wednesday at Denver Health. The 43-ye...

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U.S. News And World Report: Peak To Peak Makes List of Best High Schools

Daily Camera | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Peak to Peak High School, Lafayette, US News and World Report, Top 100 Gold Medal High School, Denver News

For the third year in a row, Lafayette's Peak to Peak High School has been ranked a "Top 100 Gold Medal High School" by U.S. News and World Report. ...

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My Coffee with Rep. Jared Polis

David Thielen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Jared Polis, Lafayette, Town Hall Meetings, Barney Frank, Colorado, Denver, Denver News
David Thielen

I met with Rep. Jared Polis this afternoon at Canyon Mine Coffee in Lafayette. I swear, Jared has so much energy that if we could plug him in to the p...

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Meanings of banned jelly bracelets: Is silver a hand job, fisting or outdoor sex?

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Angevine Middle School, Lafayette, Michael Roberts, Urban Dictionary, Home News

The principal at Lafayette's Angevine Middle School has reportedly asked parents to urge their kids not to wear colored jelly bracelets to ...

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Obama, the Arts, and Soft Power

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Lafayette, Agnes Gund, John McCain, Michael Chabon, Hal Prince, Soft Power, Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, America, Barack Obama, France's Ministry of Culture, John Lynch, Entertainment News
Raymond J. Learsy

I have always been struck by the paucity of interest and support our government gives to the arts. In Obama's opinion it appears the arts have become essential to reengage our standing in the world.

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New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Mike Ragogna

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.

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Area Woman Worried She's Forgetting What Heath Ledger Looked Like

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Lafayette, Home News

LAFAYETTE, LA—A little more than a year after Heath Ledger's tragic death, 36-year-old Petra Rowe struggled Thursday to clearly remember the......

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"Transplant" Automakers Get Over $3.6 Billion in Subsidies; More Unions, Ralph Nader Comment

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Change to Win, Herbert Hoover, Chrysler, Decherd, Buffalo, Honda, Blue Springs, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Montgomery, Ford, Volkswagen, Senators, Nissan, Infrastructure, Princeton, Benedict Arnold, General Motors, Hyundai, Greensburg Indiana, Essential Action, Ralph Nader, Uaw, Lafayette, Toyota, Canton, Detroit Three, Ohio, San Antonio, United Steelworkers, Kia, Huntsville, Democrats, Foreign-Owned, Good Jobs First, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Bush Administration, Chattanooga, Detroit Three Loans, Bmw, Subaru, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Transplant, Tax Exempt, Smyrna, Unions, Japanese Transplants, Spartanburg, Republicans, Detroit Bailout, Auto Industry, Business News
Steve Parker

This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.

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Lafayette, Where Are You? Obama Needs You Now!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: France, Pres Sarkozy, De Gaulle, Oil, Aspen Institute, Mccain, Obama, NY Times, Democrats, E.P.R., Nuclear Power, Lafayette, Obama Energy Policy, Barack Obama Nuclear Power, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Green News
Raymond J. Learsy

One solution stands out that would be singularly effective in contravening our seemingly helpless dependency on fossil fuels.

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