More than a year after Lafayette Utilities System first
introduced its initiative to provide fiber-to-the-home to
Lafayette residents, the issue goes to a vote this Saturday,
July 16. It's a landmark project that could have a profound
effect on Lafayette's future ' and The Independent Weekly
endorses the project and urges all Lafayette residents to vote
"Yes" for fiber.  Even after months of city-parish council
meetings, press conferences, public rallies and non-stop media
coverage of the project throughout Acadiana, there still seems
to be a significant amount of apathy in the community about the
LUS project. The technology associated with LUS' proposal is
complex and high-tech, and it's understandable that buzzwords
like "fiber-to-the-home," "megahertz" and "gigabyte" aren't
standard dinner-table conversation. Voter turnout in this
Saturday's election is expected to be extremely low, and your
vote is crucial.  Opponents of the plan consistently return to
the same message: government should not compete with