CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Roosevelt Johnson’s Grandstanding About Channel Four

    Roosevelt Johnson’s Grandstanding About Channel Four

    As a follow-up to a recent post about Alexandria’s Government Access Television channel: Alexandria City Council President Roosevelt Johnson obviously takes issue with being criticized on television. Television, you see, is his thing; Johnson worked for many years as a videographer for the local NBC affiliate, which, incidentally, also employed his colleague, Councilwoman Mitzi Gibson. President Johnson is so incensed about being criticized on television that he’s asked the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) to “investigate” the “misuse” of Government Access Television. Surely, after all, there must be a provision that allows Roosevelt Johnson to control the editorial content on…

  • Poor John Fleming

    Poor John Fleming

    Apparently, Louisiana Congressman John Fleming spends $200,000 a year to “feed his family,” which leaves him with only $400,000 a year to spend on other things. Fleming, who is ranked as one of the wealthiest members of Congress, reports assets of between $4.06M to $17.0M and made more than $6M last year, according to The Wall Street Journal, though Fleming claims that his actual net income was more like $600,000, which, I’m assuming, given the context of his remarks, does not also include his salary and benefits as a Congressman.  No one should begrudge Congressman Fleming’s entrepreneurial success, but it seems…

  • Civility

    During the last couple of months, admittedly, I’ve expressed my deep frustration on a number of issues– issues that, for the most part, I was unwilling to discuss whenever I was working and living in Alexandria. I fully recognize that I often take a direct and confrontational tone. As a blogger, I reserve my right to be snarky and irreverent, and as someone who enjoys writing, I also reserve my right to use language– to provoke, to challenge, and, at the very least, to attempt to engage. After spending the last few years of my life on the front lines…