CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Bobby Jindal’s Campaign Treasurer Calls for Denying Funding for Baton Rouge Schools

    H/t to the Mighty Favrog and the Daily Kingfish for first calling statewide attention to this story. (I hope the Mighty Favrog doesn’t mind, but I’ve borrowed some of his pictures of Baton Rouge schools). Rolfe McCollister, campaign treasurer for Bobby Jindal and publisher of The Baton Rouge Business Report, recently published an editorial suggesting that citizens should vote against a one-cent renewal tax to improve Baton Rouge schools and provide much-needed raises for public school teachers. Frankly, I find it difficult to believe that anyone would trust this man with financial advice, considering his involvement in a campaign ethics…

  • Hillary Clinton in New Orleans

    The state of the union is not strong until the State of the Black Union is strong. – Hillary Clinton, New Orleans, 23 FEB 2008 Hillary Clinton once again universalized the particular during the speech she delivered at the State of the Black Union 2008 symposium at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on 23 FEB. The plight of African-Americans is the plight of all Americans, she declared, enacting a dialectical movement similar to the one she performed at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995, when she famously recast womens’ rights as…

  • Historic Alexandria: Bailey’s Dam

    Pictured: Joseph Bailey (from the National Archives). From the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism and by Stephen D. Smith and George Castille III: Major General Nathaniel P Banks, Union commander of the Red River military expedition, found himself in a particularly tight situation in April of 1864. He had been defeated at the Battle of Mansfield while attempting to capture Shreveport, Louisiana, and now he was retreating down the Red River, harassed by Confederate troops at every turn. Throughout the campaign, the river’s low water level had been a constant problem to his naval support of gunboats under…