CenLamar | Est. 2006

I spent last weekend up in Chicago. I hadn’t been there in over a decade, and although the City, for the most part, hasn’t changed all that much, there are some notable improvements, many of which provide lessons for those of us here in Alexandria. Like Alexandria, Chicago was also decimated by a huge fire– only seven years after General Banks ordered the scorching of our fair City. There are only a handful of buildings that survived the Great Fire of 1871, and not surprisingly, they are well-preserved gems of the urban core. When you consider this– that one of…

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– Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens Update: Pickens was a major funder of the nefarious Swift Boat campaign. I am disgusted I was duped into actually promoting him. Pickens is buying up a ton of ad time to announce to America “The Pickens Plan,” which involves a gargantuan investment in wind and solar power technologies– renewables. He says that the United States “is the Saudi Arabia of wind power.” You understand? A billionaire Texas oilman is finally saying: We can’t drill ourselves out of this emergency. And he’s putting his money where his mouth is. I’m not trying to sing…