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Local Ownership of BioFuel Plants Key to Rural Development
As discussed previously on Cenlamar, Mike Strain (R-Covington) introduced HB 25 to provide a tax credit for the production of renewable fuels in Louisiana. We argued that Strain’s bill does not go far enough to ensure the environmental sustainability of agricultural feedstocks. Farmers in Louisiana grow a number of crops that can be converted into biofuels, such as sugarcane and woody biomass for ethanol and soybean oil for biodiesel. There are many differences between ethanol and biodiesel. As you may have guessed, ethanol can be used as a substitute for gasoline and biodiesel works in ordinary diesel engines (in fact,…
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Op-Ed: Gender Politics: When Fathers Do Not Exist
By Geoff Clegg. An interesting little article recently popped up on City Journal entitled “The Incredible Shrinking Father” by Kay Hymowitz about the paternity issues of sperm donors. In Kansas, a raging debate over the issue of contracts and paternal rights has turned up in court. The case, involving a father who donoted sperm to another couple, invites the question of who is responsible for the welfare and the general rights afforded to the donor. The lower courts of the State of Kansas affirmed that the mother is the sole individual heir to the children (they were twins) produced via…
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Bolton High School: School’s Out for Summer
As I mentioned in the previous post, one of the most popular threads ever published on CenLamar concerned Bolton High School. The first entry on Bolton was published on September 13, 2006, and it attracted a significant attention and an influx of comments from current and former teachers, Bolton’s former principal, current and former students, parents, and concerned citizens. The initial post asked a series of simple questions, but some perceived my interest in the topic as purely political (though it was not). It seems appropriate that after a full school year and after the election of two new School…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
