CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Congrats to Jeff Carbo

    From The Town Talk: Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects of Alexandria has received the Award of Excellence from the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award, given during the chapter’s annual meeting in New Orleans, is the chapter’s highest design honor. The Carbo firm won the award for its design of an innovative and sustainable Rain Garden in Shreveport. Even though they won the award for work they did in Shreveport, I know Jeff and his team are true champions for the future of the City of Alexandria. Kudos to them.

  • James David Cain for US Senate ???

    According to John Maginnis and others, former LA State Senator James David Cain is considering a bid for the United States Senate. Cain is a former member of the Louisiana House. He once lost a Congressional election but was then elected to four subsequent terms in the Louisiana Senate. In 2006, he ran for a statewide position- Insurance Commissioner- and received nearly 40% of the vote. From The Independent Weekly: “The upshot of his candidacy, however, could be another senator for President Obama,” Maginnis writes, “if Cain acts as a spoiler by drawing enough rural white votes from Sen. David…

  • Really?

    “I’ll take a TV personality over a community organizer any day.” – Senator David Vitter, apparently referencing former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Note to Senator Vitter: Sarah Palin may currently be a “TV personality,” but Barack Obama was a “community organizer” over a decade ago. In the interim, he’s been an accomplished attorney, a Constitutional law professor at one of the nation’s best law schools, a best-selling author (who actually wrote his own memoirs), an Illinois State Senator, and a United States Senator. Palin was the Mayor of a town of less than 10,000 people, lost…