CenLamar | Est. 2006

According to dozens of comments published on numerous websites and sports-related online forums between 2004 and 2009, Scott McKay, the owner and publisher of The Hayride, allegedly has an extensive track record of defrauding and scamming numerous readers, dating back to his first publication, the now-defunct Purple and Gold. McKay graduated LSU in 1993, and four years later, he launched Purple and Gold, a small but decidedly independent publication focusing exclusively on LSU sports. He shuttered the publication in 2007, but not before reportedly securing subscriptions from dozens of formerly loyal fans. “I just think he (McKay) takes peoples money and run,” commented “LSU7171,”…

Over the last twelve years, Blake Chatelain and his wife Belle have donated at least $28,000 in cash and an additional $2,000 in-kind to Bobby Jindal. They sent the majority of their donations from their former, relatively modest house on Whitechapel Boulevard in Alexandria, two blocks away from my own childhood home and on a street named after my great-grandfather’s small church in rural Rapides Parish. Less than four years after he launched Red River Bank, Chatelain sent Jindal, then only 33 years old, two different checks on the same day for $5,000, according to records maintained by the Louisiana…

I was 11 years old, about to be 12 in a few short weeks, sitting at the back of a double-wide trailer that my junior high in a small city in Central Louisiana was “temporarily” using as an art studio. Our teacher had about 25 of us crammed in that tiny, poorly ventilated space, and we were loud, obnoxious, bratty kids, the oldest sons and daughters of my hometown’s newest generation of doctors, bankers, entrepreneurs, and real estate developers. Don’t be distracted by the trailer: This was a private school, and it was the best one within 110 miles in…