CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Rocket Man

    One of my favorite covers of all-time:

  • While I’m At It

    Maybe I’m being mean, but… I have to admit to Mr. Greg Aymond of the website CentralLaPolitics that, even though I removed his website from my blogroll because of his penchant for (what I consider to be) incendiary, divisive posts about African-Americans, I’ve still been following his blog. Forgive the inside baseball jargon here, but for those engaged Alexandrians paying attention, I think some clarification is in order: Mayor Roy ran on a platform of increasing government transparency and pledged to increase access to the Mayor’s Office. He has definitely lived up to that promise. He constantly corresponds with the…

  • Shedding Some Light

    From Sherri Jackson of The Cenla Light, we learn: Mayor Jacques Roy participated in the (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) parade but didn’t attend the program. Sykes said an apparent mix-up resulted in Roy’s name not being on the program. Several people, including the Rev. Joe S. Green, tried to get Roy to come in to the program, but he didn’t come. I didn’t attend the parade or the prayer breakfast, but my sources say that Ms. Jackson’s reporting is, well, a little light, if you will. The Mayor didn’t attend the program, because he wasn’t on the program. Simple…