CenLamar | Est. 2006

Louisiana State Treasurer and current candidate for U.S. Senate John Kennedy is maliciously and wrongly accusing former Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne of wastefully spending public money on two “world-class” works of public art installed at the new $1.1 billion University Medical Center in New Orleans, despite the fact that Louisiana’s “Percent for Art Program” law requires the state to spend 1% on art for any public building project worth more than $2,000,000. Moreover, neither Dardenne nor anyone in his former office “spent” money for this artwork. As the law clearly states, the agency responsible for constructing the public building is tasked with purchasing the…

On Dec. 28, 2014, I hit “publish” on what would almost instantly become the most sensational and most popular report I’ve ever written. After more than a month of research, I uncovered evidence that House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, had once attended a conference hosted by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (or EURO), a white supremacist hate group founded by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Within hours, the story had been picked up by news outlets all across the globe. For a few brief days, it seemed as if…

Yesterday, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, a Republican, delivered a fiery, no-nonsense speech about the state’s partisan deadlock, and spent most of his time excoriating the former Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, and Republican members of the state legislature for their negligence and dereliction of duty. It’s a great read, and since no one else has published the full transcript, I thought I could provide a much-needed public service. Quoting: What a mess. Bobby Jindal was a better cult leader than Jim Jones. We drank the elixir for eight years. We remained in a conscious state; we walked to the edge…