This is a partial reconstruction of the Lafayette Pro Fiber blog that John St. Julien ran for many years, chronicling the grassroots fight for and establishment of LUS Fiber in Louisiana. Many of the links have gone bad and images are missing, but most of the ideas are here and we believe well worth preserving. Site archived by the Community Broadband Networks program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Some of the articles that have disappeared are still available via the WayBack Machine.
Today Lafayette makes her decision. There is a fine band that has stood together in this fight to make a progressive future here in Lafayette. Creative, determined, and relentless, this has been a remarkable crew with which to work.
We’ve got a phalanx manning phone banks, two headquarters, a batch of poll checkers, people scheduled to yell on street corners…bike riders, fiber flatbeds adorned with 4×8 signs, and old-fashioned megaphone trucks. It’s gonna be a good day. And a better future.
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