CenLamar | Est. 2006

In 2015, during his campaign for Louisiana Attorney General, former Congressman Jeff Landry lambasted his opponent, the incumbent Buddy Caldwell, for running the Department of Justice like his own private fiefdom. Landry called it “the Buddy system,” and he vowed that, once elected, he would demand complete transparency. “A.G. candidate Landry pledges transparency,” blared a headline on the website The Louisiana Record, a publication owned by the U.S. Chamber for Legal Reform. The U.S. Chamber for Legal Reform is an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is known to rely on “substantively inaccurate and methodologically flawed” surveys in…

If Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump are ultimately successful in repealing the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act (more popularly known as Obamacare), Louisiana stands to lose 37,000 jobs, $639.7 million in revenue, $39.1 billion in business output, and $21.5 billion in gross state product (GSP) and strip health insurance from more than 400,000 people, according to multiple reports published by non-partisan organizations and projections released by the Congressional Budget Office. These losses would practically guarantee financial insolvency for a state that has already been lunging from one budget crisis to the next during the last four years, thanks almost entirely…

Two days ago, Judi Terzotis, Gannett’s newly-minted President of its newly-created Gulf Region Division, wrote the obituary for a 134-year-old daily newspaper that, in its heyday, had been one of the most influential and innovative journalistic institutions in the entire country, The Town Talk of Alexandria, Louisiana.  Ms. Terzotis can be forgiven for not appreciating the magnitude of her announcement. She has only been on the job for about a year, and The Town Talk is just one of several mid-market papers for which she is responsible. It’s also worth nothing: She’s apparently never actually lived in Alexandria. Lafayette has been her home…