CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • ESPN Publishes a Fantastic Essay on the New Orleans Saints

    Really, it’s about what it means to love New Orleans. This guy gets it. Excerpt: Yes, there is something happening in New Orleans, a strange and beautiful story not so much about a town that still needs distraction from a hurricane but about a professional sports team changing the nature of the relationship between franchise and fan. “It’s the entire city,” LeBlanc says as we drive. “Everybody feels it. It’s not because we’re selling it. Faith or fate, whatever you believe in, you cannot watch this football team and not have faith.” …. The soul of the city is coming…

  • Jim Clinton: A Chilling Announcement from Baton Rouge

    From Cenla Daily: The Baton Rouge Business Report says that Baton Rouge-based IEM will soon become North Carolina-based IEM. IEM is a disaster management consulting firm with about 200 employees in Baton Rouge. According to the company, only about 50 of those are involved in headquarters operations, and the other 150 could remain in Baton Rouge but may opt to go to North Carolina. If they stay, it would soften the blow considerably, except for the other part of the announcement which says that IEM plans to hire 430 workers in North Carolina. The announcement comes after what Baton Rouge Area Chamber President…

  • Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech

    1:44 P.M. CET THE PRESIDENT:  Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility.  It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations — that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate.  Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice. And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has generated.  (Laughter.)  In part, this is…