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AlexCenla: The Great Wall of Alexandria
Yesterday, friend and fellow local blogger AlexCenla published his take on Alexandria’s recent efforts to attract commercial development to the Hodges Stockyard property in the Lower Third neighborhood. Although I disagree with many if not all of AlexCenla’s assumptions and conclusions, I liked his central metaphor: Interstate 49 as “The Great Wall of Alexandria.” Hindsight, as they say, is always 20/20, and today, many locals wonder whether or not it was a good idea to build I-49 directly through the center of Alexandria. Although it’s been nearly 15 years since the Interstate first opened in Alexandria, I think the jury…
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New Format
CenLamar’s Word Cloud, February 2011 Welcome to the revamped CenLamar.com. The changes I’ve made are more than aesthetic, I promise. The website is more interactive and better organized, and for better or worse, now, you can rank the quality of posts and comments. It’s also much easier to subscribe to the site, and I’ve created a “Best of CenLamar” section, which features the most popular posts during the last five years. In the next few weeks, you’ll notice there are now four different types of posts: a standard, an aside, a link, and a gallery. And you’ll also notice that the…
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Louisiana Teenager Champions Repeal of Anti-Science Louisiana “Science Education” Act
Exhibit A: Pro-science propaganda cleverly marketed to our innocent children. Kudos to Zack Kopplin, the Baton Rouge Magnet High School student (and publisher of the website http://www.repealcreationism.com) who has made statewide news during the last few weeks for his outspoken advocacy for the repeal of the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA). Oyster at The Lens wrote a must-read on the young Mr. Kopplin’s efforts back on February 8th. A few days ago, Kopplin was also featured in a column on The Huffington Post, which called him a “profile in (evolutionary) courage.” In 2008, Governor Bobby Jindal, the proud owner…
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