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Pepsi follows Walgreens in Offering Responsible Beverage Options
If you read through some of the posts on here, you’ll see that getting rid of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is a big issue for me. It’s also a big issue for all of Louisiana since the other option is a return to sugar. Sugar was the primary beverage sweetener before 1984 when Coke and Pepsi switched to the cheaper (government subsidized) HFCS. HFCS is an artificial sweetener created by chemically altering regular corn syrup (like the Karo syrup you make desserts out of) to put it into a form that is several times sweeter and alien to our…
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Next Week in Alexandria: The Annual LA Historic Preservation Conference
Next week, preservationists throughout Louisiana will gather in Alexandria for the 30th annual statewide preservation conference. And despite what the brochure says, it’s not too late to register! Check out the brochure here. The conference will kick off next Tuesday night with an event at Loyd Hall, which has recently undergone extensive renovations. On Wednesday, world-renowned preservationist and economist Donovan Rypkema will be flying in from Europe to address -what else- the economics of historic preservation. On a side note, you can read Mr. Rypkema’s insightful remarks to a conference in Toronto by clicking here. And here are a couple…
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Tea Party FAIL
Yesterday, a few scores of concerned and confused American patriots protested the Bush taxation policies at the Alexandria Riverfront Amphitheater, earnestly believing, instead, that they were actually protesting against our new President (and a budget that has not yet been implemented). A week ago, The Town Talk announced the event as follows: Tea Party on the Red will be held Wednesday, April 15, from 5 to 7 p.m at the downtown amphitheatre in Alexandria. The program starts at 5:30 p.m. The activities include a presentation of colors by the National Guard, the Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
