CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Cuckoo for Coco Puffs (Part Duh)

    Today, both in The Town Talk and on his website, CenlaNews, Rapides Parish Police Juror Steve Coco is taking aim at Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy for allegedly not fulfilling a promise to use City capital funds and SPARC bond money to repair deficiencies along the Red River levees. Apparently, Coco is upset that disaster recovery funds may be used instead- funds that were initially assigned to Rapides Parish a few months after Hurricane Gustav. To me, this speaks directly to Mr. Coco’s intellectual honesty and seriousness of purpose. Go ahead: Call me an attack dog, but the levee situation is…

  • The Daily World: Vitter’s BP Proposal “Puzzling.”

    Quoting: Vitter proposes increasing the liability limit for oil spills to the offending company’s profits for the last four quarters, or double the current — and laughable — $75 million limit, whichever is greater. But if the intent is to hold BP to its admission of responsibility, why impose an arbitrary limit at all? Up to 800,000 barrels of oil a day continue to leak into the Gulf of Mexico. The dome, the siphon, the junk shot, the top kill and the underwater robots have, so far, failed. Commercial fishing, recreational fishing and tourism, all big-money industries along the coast,…

  • Kudos to Ryan

    Three years after creating one of Louisiana’s most popular and insightful progressive websites, The Daily Kingfish, publisher Ryan McLeod is turning over the keys to a new group of contributors and editors. (Ryan was recruited to manage a campaign in New York State). I met Ryan shortly after he launched The Daily Kingfish, and during the last three years, we’ve become good friends. He graciously allowed my friend Daniel and me to share floor passes with him at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, and throughout the last three years (while he was earning his law degree from LSU), Ryan has been…