CenLamar | Est. 2006

Work in Progress: What Is Smart Growth, Really? And What Could It Mean for Alexandria? During the past four months, we’ve been talking a lot about smart growth and what it could mean for Alexandria. We elected a mayor who made smart growth the central theme of his campaign. But still, for many, smart growth may seem like a witty rhetorical device, a catchy phrase with vague and uncertain implications. However, smart growth is a real, definable concept, with its own logic and set of rules. Earlier this week, Babs Zimmerman of KALB wrote that “smart growth hammers on parochialism,”…

The Season of Giving and CLASS The Central Louisiana AIDS Support Services needs your help. Executive Director Ann Lowry explains: This year has been particularly hard at our agency. Many of my employees have worked at CLASS as long as I have (7 years). This year alone, we watched 20 clients at our agency die from this disease. We lost 17 clients in 2005. It might surprise you to know that more than half of those who died were women, many of whom left behind children. It is particularly heartbreaking for us because we know our clients so well that…

Everett Hobbs Named President of the City Council; Louis Marshall Named Vice President.