CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Auto Industry: Blame your Dealer

    Some area bloggers like to criticize the content of this site as pushing a “share the wealth” mentality.  In reality the writers of this blog more than anything else work to bring a local focus to national and world issues.  Often when you talk about larger issues on a local scale — especially in  relation to a local area like Central Louisiana where poverty is still rampant and wages are considerably lower than the national average those discussions do tend to lean toward a progressive or “share the wealth mentality”.  It’s just the nature of our local situation and at…

  • A Chance Encounter With Andres Duany

    I’m in Florida on vacation for the week, so posting may be light. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t share something that happened to me today. Today, we headed down 30-A to visit Seaside, the little town made famous by The Truman Show. Seaside was one of the first planned “smart growth” developments in the country and the brainchild of planner Andres Duany, a man who is often considered the most influential person in American land use planning. Duany and his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, are the founders of the Congress for New Urbanism and are both outspoken proponents of reinvisioning the…

  • Are we all Idiots?

    Watching HGTV, I can’t help but wonder at which point we (as a cumulative nationwide population) became idiots? Sounds harsh of course, but seriously as consumers we seem to have become absolute imbeciles. I’m currently watching an episode of House Hunters or My First Place or one of those regurgitations of the the same exact theme. in this episode someone is looking for their first “starter home” at $250,000. At which point did we start viewing houses (much less those costing a quarter million dollars) as “starter homes”?? This whole idea of a starter home is insane. Why would you…