CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Illegal Coordination Between the Republican Governor’s Association, KY Gov. Fletcher, and LA Rep. Jindal?

    The Bluegrass Report, a website that describes itself as “(a)n unfiltered look at politics, politicians, and the media in Kentucky,” features a fascinating story about the collusion between the Republican Governor’s Association, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, and Louisiana gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Bobby Jindal. The Kentucky Democratic Party filed a complaint against the Republican Governor’s Association on September 27, 2007, alleging that the RGA had illegally coordinated with Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher in support of his re-election campaign. The main problem, as explained by a story on The Hotline, is that Governor Fletcher’s media consultant, Fred Davis, is working for…

  • John Mellencamp’s “Jena”

  • The Issues: Improving Education in Louisiana

    SEVEN YEARS AGO, I graduated from a Louisiana public high school. I completed high school one year after the massacre at Columbine. The entire system was grappling with “school violence,” and in Louisiana, many schools reacted by imposing stricter discipline policies, often at the expense of individual rights and the “free and open exchange of ideas.” Here in Rapides Parish, the School Board implemented a number of expensive and superfluous policies: identification badges, increased discipline, and cumbersome protocols. A few years after I finished high school, voters approved a half-cent tax to fund the School Resource Officer program, $2.5 million…