CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Consensus

    Last week, the US Census Bureau released the 2010 numbers for the State of Louisiana. Among other things, we learned that Alexandria, Pineville, and Rapides Parish all experienced population gains, which is positive news for our community. From the Census Bureau’s official press release: Data for Louisiana show that the five most populous incorporated places and their 2010 Census counts are New Orleans, 343,829; Baton Rouge, 229,493; Shreveport, 199,311; Lafayette, 120,623; and Lake Charles, 71,993. New Orleans decreased by 29.1 percent since the 2000 Census. Baton Rouge grew by 0.7 percent, Shreveport decreased by 0.4 percent, Lafayette grew by 9.4…

  • Senor Vitter y Senor Stonecipher

    From the USA Today (bold mine): Four of the eight states gaining House seats owe roughly half or more of their population gains over the last decade to Hispanics. They include Texas, which picks up four seats; Florida, which will add two seats; and Arizona and Nevada, picking up one seat apiece. In Georgia and Washington state, which also gain one seat each, Hispanics combined with other minority groups accounted for a majority of their growth since 2000. Among states losing House seats, Louisiana and New Jersey each would have posted a net population loss, and Michigan would have sustained…

  • Snopes Versus Coco

    Quoting Rapides Parish Police Juror Steve Coco via his website, CenlaNews (bold mine): The FEDS want more of your money as Americans are learning the bad news. The new health care bill rammed through Congress by the Obama Administration orders a 3.8% sales tax on home sales in 2013. The tax, verified by snopes, is on “unearned income” or all investment income, plus home sales. The health care reform bill was a thousand pages and no one had time to read it, including members of congress. Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it.”…