CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • The Bourgeois Blues

    At CenLamar, we often champion a renewed focus on Alexandria’s Downtown and inner-core neighborhoods. We believe that the national trend towards the suburbanization of the city’s outlying areas represents an unhealthy and unsustainable scenario for Alexandria. As the city’s footprint expands, citizens run the double risk of stretched public services and a greater number of people living outside of city limits, taking advantage of Alexandria’s infrastructure but avoiding the city’s taxes. By looking inwards, Alexandrians can not only invigorate the city’s existing tax base, but promote the walk-ability and attractiveness of areas like the Historic Garden District and Downtown, which…

  • CenLamar Welcomes Newest Contributor, LAMediaWatch

    CENLAMAR IS PROUD to welcome the newest member of our team of writers and our first anonymous contributor, LAMediaWatch. While a guest writer at The Daily Kingfish, LAMediaWatch wrote a series of sensational and thoroughly researched essays on the media, Bobby Jindal, David Vitter, and the upcoming election. Many of these essays have now been cross-posted right here on CenLamar, even the scandalous ones: The Conservative Response(s) to the Vitter Scandal Is Team Vitter Behind Operation Red November? Vitter and the LA GOP Cover-up: “We Discussed That Exact Fact.” The Question Mark: Louisiana Republicans Support Vitter? Vitter’s Campaign Commercials and…

  • Bobby Jindal and the “Freedom” of Assembly

    SEE UPDATE: LSU STUDENT EXPLAINS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT PUBLIC JINDAL EVENT  LAST WEEK, MY COUSIN (and a good friend of mine) claims he was escorted out of a Bobby Jindal event by uniformed police officers. My cousin is a student at LSU and a well-known Democrat on campus, but he was not escorted out of the event for asking any questions or calling any attention to himself in order to distract Representative Jindal or his supporters. My cousin was well-dressed and had been invited to the event by a female friend who simply wanted to hear Jindal speak. One…