CenLamar | Est. 2006

Report: Hotel Bentley Repairs To Cost Between $7.6-$8.8 million. According to a recent report, the Hotel Bentley, which is currently on the market for $12.2 million, will need between $7.6 and $8.8 million worth of repairs and renovations in order to effectively function as a four-star hotel. The report was written by Glenn Stewart, a Lafayette-based real estate investor and entrepeneur, and Carol White, a local real estate developer and investor. (In the interest of full disclosure, Carol White is my mother, and she is not interested in purchasing the Bentley). The ten page report was composed after meeting with…

The Onion: Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious To Be The First Female President By Gerald Collins May 24, 2006 | Issue 42•21 I think it’s about time we had a female president of the United States. I don’t care what anyone says: Women can be just as smart and qualified as men—especially the clowns we’ve had in Washington lately. But Hillary Clinton? She’s just a little too ambitious to do what no woman before her has ever done. Hillary seems to think she knows what our country needs better than anyone else, and believes that she, among the hundreds or…

Memorial Day Reminder: 2,448 American Soldiers Killed in Iraq Since the War Began Monthly Summaries References Month US Named Dead * US Reported Dead ** US Wounded *** **** US Army Evacuations from Iraq Wounded In Action ***** Non-Battle Injury ***** Disease ***** March 2003 65 0 202 930 3212 5846 April 2003 73 0 340 TOTAL 138 0 542 May 37 0 54 June 30 0 147 July 47 0 226 August 35 0 181 September 30 0 247 October 43 0 413 November 82 0 337 December 40 0 261 January 2004 47 0 188 February 19 0…