CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • SHOCKING: One Month Ago, Jindal’s Lawyer on School Vouchers Donated $1,000 to Judge Hearing Legal Challenge

    According to a recent campaign finance disclosure published by the Louisiana Ethics Administration, on October 24, 2012, Jimmy Faircloth, the Alexandria-based attorney and the former executive counsel to Governor Bobby Jindal, donated $1,000 to Judge Tim Kelley. Why is this significant? Quoting from The Times-Picayune (bold mine): Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent education overhaul had its first day in court Wednesday, with lawyers for and against the voucher program changes calling witnesses to the 19th Judicial Court in Baton Rouge. Even before the opening statements were made, presiding Judge Timothy Kelley said he was confident he could make a ruling on the…

  • Trapped Into Dependency: Ashley Volion’s Inspirational Fight for an Education

    Less than two weeks ago, when Barack Obama took the stage in Chicago to accept his re-election as President of the United States, he spoke about a young girl in Ohio whose family nearly went bankrupt after she was diagnosed with leukemia: And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care. I had an…

  • PREFACE: Trapped Into Dependency: Ashley Volion’s Inspirational Fight for an Education

    It wasn’t until I was around seven, I think, before I knew how to ask the question, “Why am I disabled? What happened?” No one– at least no one worth taking seriously– remembers when they were born. And I don’t remember exactly when my parents sat me down and explained to me what happened during the first few minutes of my life; in all likelihood, it was a question that I asked several times before I really understood the answer. “Before you were born, you were doing flips in Mama’s belly. You were upside down, and you had the umbilical…