CAMPAIGN NEWS

THANK YOU, last night May 18, 2026, City Council for voting to table the proposed Occupational License Fee Ordinance to give them time to review the legal issues and the questionable taxing method behind it. This is NOT the time to increase costs for businesses that will be passed on to the people! Ordinance 2026-005, proposed by the Administration, represents a NEW material expansion of municipal taxation authority that is legally vulnerable, economically regressive, and fun

Last weekend at the Youngsville Sports Complex near Lafayette, 70 teams competed in a youth baseball tournament, hundreds of people played soccer nearby and ESPN trucks were there to broadcast the Conference USA Beach Volleyball Championship games also happening onsite. For Josh Smith, Youngsville's assistant director of parks and recreation, the level of activity was nothing special. "It was a quiet weekend, actually," he said. Welcome to the booming world of youth trave