CenLamar | Est. 2006

“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war,” President Abraham Lincoln famously said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in 1862. Of course, we cannot know for certain if these were Lincoln’s exact words to Stowe, but the quote endures, even if it is folklore, because it expresses a fundamental truth about the popularity and the persuasiveness of Stowe’s book, which, at that point, was more than a decade old. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a phenomenally successful book. In its first year, it sold more than 300,000 copies in the United…

Two months ago, I announced my intention to launch The Bayou Brief, a first-of-its-kind statewide, non-profit, and online-only news publication that would exclusively focus on quality investigative journalism about the Great State of Louisiana. Within less than a week, more than 120 people- 90% of whom were from Louisiana- contributed more than $15,000 to turn that idea into a reality. Suffice it to say, I have stayed busy during the last two months, and today, The Bayou Brief has incorporated as a non-profit corporation, appointed a Board of Directors, adopted Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, hired one of the country’s best web development companies,…

Nearly one year after former Congressman Jeffrey Martin Landry had been elected as the Attorney General and less than two weeks after Donald Trump won a stunning upset over Hillary Clinton, Landry saw a business opportunity. On Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, J.M. Landry and Associates, his solely-held consulting company, filed to trademark a Trump-inspired clothing line of “t-shirts, sweatshirts, tank tops, shirts, pants, trousers, shorts, jackets, pullovers, socks, footwear, hats, swimwear, baby clothing (namely, one piece garments), children’s t-shirts,” from his office at the Region’s Bank building in New Iberia, which, incidentally, is the same location listed for his law…