Someone mentioned that a big news story is about to come out regarding Cleco. Hopefully, this is not what they were talking about:
“Cleco Corp. has awarded its top five executives and former CEO David Eppler more than $5 million in bonuses and other compensation for the company’s 2005 performance.
Eppler, who retired from Cleco in July, received more than $2 million in salary and cash bonus, according to the utility’s 2005 proxy statement.”
Not a bad deal, but I hardly see why this seems newsworthy enough to merit a spot on the front page of the TT (at least the online version; I haven’t seen the print version today).
CenLamar 
this is more clown talk class warfare b.s. designed to divide the have and have-not locals.
the real cleco story they never bothered to report on was when mayor randolph a few months ago hired charlie weems to represent the city in the lawsuit the three guys he fired back in september had filed. how randolph got the authority to hire weems is unknown especially since the city already has its own in house attorney.
we saw what happened in that weems removed the suit to federal court which conveniently both judges f a little jr and dee drell both came from the gold firm. by the way here’s judge drell’s resume from the department of justice website.
of course neither one recused themselves which a most liberal interpretation of the canons of judicial conduct would seem to require. and it wound up that chambers, craig and williamson settled for peanuts.
and yes we just checked todays print edition and its on the front page up high on the right – across from some lame story about getting your first drivers licence.
Yes, I believe it’s another way for the TT to rub Alexandria power consumers’ faces in the poo since they’re paying an arm and leg for their electric bills.
The Alexandria city attorney has never gone to court without help from an outside lawyer. This was true when Charly N. was there also. About all they actually do is ok settlement checks for trip and falls. Oh, they recomind the legal consultants to the council.