CenLamar | Est. 2006

City of Alexandria Planning for Downtown Indoor Sports Arena(Thanks to WeSawThat for coverting this to a JPG) Download: Here’s the proposed site in PDF.

Vitter Blog Post (Yes, He’s a Blogger): Thanks Guys For The Off-Shore Drilling Legislation The Hill Blog: A Vital Vote on Offshore Drilling August 1st, 2006 The vote was extremely important. This is a real breakthrough, particularly in the Senate, in terms of opening up a new area for drilling, new production, and in terms of allowing revenue sharing. I think that model can allow us to open new areas in the future to increase domestic oil and gas production. It was vitally important for Louisiana. We have been fighting for this for years – getting our fair share of…

Is Downtown Alexandria Dead? Yesterday, KALB’s Larry Collins filed a report about the business activity (or lack thereof) in Downtown Alexandria. The report actually featured a screenshot of a comment left on the beloved blog, Cenla Antics. One of the most well-written critiques, I believe, is this one: “Anonymous said… What is so important about downtown? It is nothing but a bunch of old buildings, lawyers’ offices, public buildings and a decaying hotel that just can’t make it on its own (actually not even with many hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money). Why pump money in a crime…